This is about as credible as a press release from [name of a prominent engineering school redacted]. There is no evidence of any blueness in the pictures.
The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
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#82> The Blue Fugates are shown in this colorized black and white photo. Date unspecified. Original source unknown, via ABC News It’s somewhat dishonest to illustrate an article on color with a photo that was colorized by someone we don’t know at an unknow date-- i.e. we don’t know anything about how they decided which shade of blue to apply on their faces. So the only interesting information caried by the photo, the sh…
The main reason people turn blueish is because of excessive colloidal silver usage. I expect it is the case for the family in this phony story.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
pretty good considering something like half of all human beings who ever lived died of Malaria!
I am mildly disappointed to learn that this is probably an overestimate, although it is pretty significant http://factmyth.com/factoids/malaria-killed-half-the-people-...
Thanks for calling it out! I think I first heard this from Plasmodium researchers, and in my mind the claim has strengthen over time. A better statement would be: "“Malaria could have potentially killed nearly to half the people who ever lived, predominantly children”."
And this is based off the idea that for most of human history people have lived in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the majority of people who lived died as children, and the predominate cause of death was Malaria.
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#84> The Blue Fugates are shown in this colorized black and white photo. Date unspecified. Original source unknown, via ABC News It’s somewhat dishonest to illustrate an article on color with a photo that was colorized by someone we don’t know at an unknow date-- i.e. we don’t know anything about how they decided which shade of blue to apply on their faces. So the only interesting information caried by the photo, the sh…
The main reason people turn blueish is because of excessive colloidal silver usage. I expect it is the case for the family in this phony story.
Did you read the story?
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#85> The Blue Fugates are shown in this colorized black and white photo. Date unspecified. Original source unknown, via ABC News It’s somewhat dishonest to illustrate an article on color with a photo that was colorized by someone we don’t know at an unknow date-- i.e. we don’t know anything about how they decided which shade of blue to apply on their faces. So the only interesting information caried by the photo, the sh…
The main reason people turn blueish is because of excessive colloidal silver usage. I expect it is the case for the family in this phony story.
No it isn’t.
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#86There is a much simpler explanation for that, silver in water. I assume that all the case is environmentally, not genetically related, or that the history is just fake.
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#87Once I donated blood and it came out green! Everyone was astonished. No idea why to this day, any ideas? Blood is back to its normal red color. Wasn’t taking any medications or feeling ill.
I believe sulfates in the blood can cause it to turn green. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfhemoglobinemia
Thanks! I wonder what caused my sulfates to rise. Maybe something I ate, or an infection without symptoms that I noticed. Or perhaps I did take a medication and I don't remember. Or just something genetic.
Thanks for sharing, because it looks like it's not something I need to worry about because my blood quickly went back to red.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
He’s dark skinned. Not really blue. His depiction as blue skinned is more symbolic
So he’s blue-skinned. Or are you implying he exists or existed for real independent of people’s psychotic heads?
All the written source material about him implies that he is dark skinned.
Visual representations of him show him as blue for other reasons (mainly the comical stigma against dark skin).
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#89Methemoglobinemia seems to be a popular medical topic lately. It's an easily treatable disease, usually methylene blue is used, and it's more an inconvenience than anything else.
I don’t know if I’d call the inability for your blood to transport oxygen merely inconvenient.
It's inconvenient because of how treatable it is with modern medicine.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
He’s dark skinned. Not really blue. His depiction as blue skinned is more symbolic
So he’s blue-skinned. Or are you implying he exists or existed for real independent of people’s psychotic heads?
Perhaps OP is implying that writer(s) of myth observed this colouration in real people and used it in their myths.