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The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap
dwrugh writes "The drummer for the seminal punk band The Germs, Don Bolles, was arrested in Orange County because a field-test kit indicated his bottle of Dr. Bronner's soap contained GHB, the date-rape drug. (Here is an interview with Bolles.) Using the same test kit, available on the web for $20 for a pack of 10, according to Bolles' attorney on NBC this morning, other soaps tested positive for GHB. But of course since it's just soap, when you test it in a real crime lab it comes back negative. Makes you wonder what other common household products also test positive, and how many others have been arrested based on faulty test kits who didn't have the resources to defend themselves."
That would be pretty ironic I guess.
Coconut oil isn't a good source of palmitic acid. Palm oil, obviously, is the best source. Most animal tallow/lard is high in palmitic acid. Other good vegetable sources are coffee bean or avacado nut oil.
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That will only be particularly true when mods get the power to delete GNAA posts instead of just modding them down.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Back in my day, kids, it was widely reported that LSD caused chromosome damage. But then all sorts of commonly ingested substances cause chromosome damage in test tubes. As is usually the case in these things, that rebuttal came out some time later and was not widely reported so most people middle-aged and up probably still believe LSD causes chromosome damage.
If NBC was useful in letting someone demonstrate a logical fallacy surrounding soap, that worked out pretty well.