City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups

localhost00 writes "The city of Aliso Viejo, CA nearly banned foam cups when they learned they are produced from a substance known as 'dihydrogen monoxide.' A paralegal working for the city apparantly found a professionally designed web site put up to describe the dangerous properties of this chemical. Apparantly, the report about Dihydrogen Monoxide was written by a then 14-year-old Nathan Zohner who was researching the gullibility of fifty ninth graders."

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Politicians Not As Smart As 6th Graders

[thelizman]

In a survey of 50 6th grade students, one rightly recognized that DHMO is water. Of hundreds of city officials, how many had to be told this fact?

Yes. Trust government, indeed.