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test whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content. …
Yeah, I don’t understand how this study was deemed ethical, let alone win.
This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.
For example,
> for their experiments to learn whether cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid being bitten by flies.
This isn't absurd. It is currently thought that the stripes are NOT for camouflage, since simulated predator vision (such as lions) cannot resolve them. It is believed that one reason for the stripes could be to act as a deterrent against flies (how exactly, not sure).
In this sense, testing whether it works on cows isn't absurd!
I wonder if the guy ingesting Teflon to replace food heard about PFAS...?
> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don’t understand how this study was deemed ethical, let alone win.
Because Teflon is harmless to the human body. It is inert. It interacts with nothing. We literally make replacement body parts out of it. This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because Teflon is harmless to the human body. It is inert. It interacts with nothing. We literally make replacement body parts out of it. This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.
Drink a pint of it then?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don’t understand how this study was deemed ethical, let alone win.
Because Teflon is harmless to the human body. It is inert. It interacts with nothing. We literally make replacement body parts out of it. This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because Teflon is harmless to the human body. It is inert. It interacts with nothing. We literally make replacement body parts out of it. This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.
Just because it's inert doesn't mean it's harmless. I'm pretty sure that if you shove a wad of it in your windpipe, you won't last very long. Also go check out water poisoning.
> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
Of course! It also makes you wittier, taller, and better looking. Everybody knows that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296112
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