• TimeSquirrel
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    163 months ago

    That’s like saying fire extinguishers filled with nothing but air are just false advertising. People have died taking these “treatments” when actual professional medical care would have saved them.

    • Karyoplasma
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      -23 months ago

      It would be more akin to fire extinguishers filled with air. It doesn’t accelerate illnesses any more than doing absolutely fucking nothing would.

      • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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        33 months ago

        A fire extinguisher filled with air can make a fire much larger.

        That wasn’t a rebuttal, it was an admission of ignorance.

        • Karyoplasma
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          3 months ago

          Only if the air is compressed. If you fill a fire extinguisher with literally just air, nothing happens if you pressed the nozzle. Everyone but you understood that. But it’s pointless to even type this as you already made up your mind, champ. Feel free to think you are a big mind.

          Point in case: the dude I “rebutted” against (lol) agreed that their initial comparison (a fire extinguisher filled with gasoline) was not appropriate.

          • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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            13 months ago

            Not being able to put out a fire isn’t the absence of a negative effect. It allows the fire to grow larger. Which is a negative effect.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        23 months ago

        Yeah I made an edit literally exactly same time as your comment as I thought about it.

      • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, but you can regulate misinformation at best, or at worst intentional disinformation, which is what’s made these people think its a legitimate path in the first llace.