The French government has issued an official warning about Slime. The warning comes from ANSES [Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail]. It bears the headline “Le Slime, une pâte très prisée mais pas sans risque.” Here’s a machine-translation of the first paragraph: “ANSES and the DGCCRF alert consumers to […]
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Medical quack warning from the 1950s
This warning about medical quackery, made in the 1950s, is still pertinent. It stars actor Raymond Massey:
Danger: The lightning bolt that was a fridge
A lightning bold hurled by an angry god is not necessarily a lightning bolt, and may be a gift from a way-cool machine. One can infer this from an urgent warning issued by the London Fire Brigade: [05 July 2011.] A week after a tower block caught fire in what was widely believed to be a […]
Official warning: Icky, smelly may be toxic
The United States Geological Service warns, in a new press release (thanks to investigator Bob Bendesky for bringing it to our attention): If the Water Looks and Smells Bad, It May Be Toxic