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Ars Technica is reporting on a story where the CDC report that a Homeopathic “healing bracelet” caused lead poisoning in a infant girl
[...] during a routine health screening. Healthcare workers found that the baby was anemic and had a blood lead level of 41 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL). While no level of lead is known to be safe, the CDC recommends health interventions when a child’s blood lead level reaches 5 μg/dL.
[...] The authorities subsequently homed in on the bracelet, a homemade “homeopathic magnetic hematite healing bracelet.” The baby’s parents said they bought it from an artisan at a local fair and gave it to the baby to wear and mouth to ease teething pain. Small spacer beads on the bracelet (shown) tested positive for lead at a level of 17,000 parts-per-million. The Consumer Product Commission in 2010 set the allowable limit of lead in products intended for children at 100 parts-per-million.
The authors of the report—Drs. Patricia Garcia and Jennifer Haile, lead treatment specialists at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center—noted that the bracelet had no warnings or branding. They added that they couldn’t get the fair’s vendor information and were unable to track down the bracelet’s maker.
Also at Live Science
(Score: 3, Interesting) by coolgopher on Monday September 04 2017, @04:29AM (14 children)
Isn't this one of those cases where the greater good for the species would be *not* to intervene?
(Yes, this is a callous and mean comment)
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @04:39AM (4 children)
> (Yes, this is a callous and mean comment)
No need for you to chime in, khallow will be here soon enough to cover this aspect of the discussion.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:46AM (3 children)
Leave khallow alone! He would never suggest that poisoning children is a good thing, unless it lead to the profits of the superior race that had inherited superior libertarian like genes. Cause, you know, intelligence is inherited. But what khallow forgot, is that sometimes it skips a generation. Especially a millenial generation that suddenly things that Nazism and White Supremacy, and D'nesh D'Souza D'aesh are all cool things. I see khallow taking a big flip, from rightwing nut-job American to ISIS radicalized Muslim. Not much of a change. He could do it. But he would have to give up on the whole poisoning children thing, then, khallow would.
Poor khallow! I hope he can find a friend.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday September 04 2017, @09:27AM (1 child)
Judging from the serial flamebait mods, khallow will not be chiming in? Oh, how I miss khallow! We used to talk about renting out backhoes, capital intensification and the immiserization of the proletariat, but then for some reason he just seemed to no want to discuss thing so much any more. Maybe he did find homeopathic bliss, in the hotpots of the Firehole River. Or, he actually went back to school? Nah.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @06:27PM
Help me Obi Wan Khallow. You're my only hope!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @10:57AM
But... but... it did lead! Specifically, TFS says it lead at a level of 17,000 parts-per-million. That's 1.7%.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Monday September 04 2017, @04:41AM (3 children)
Sort of Darwinism-by-proxy?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @05:06AM (1 child)
fortune: It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday September 04 2017, @12:12PM
Evolution has no end result. Either you have offspring, then you are only an intermediate step, and your offspring is the next. Or you don't have offspring, then you are an evolutionary dead end.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Monday September 04 2017, @10:03PM
Sort of Darwinism chasing down a missed lead. Clearly the parent's managed to pass their genes on, but nature has found a way to remove them.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday September 04 2017, @05:14AM (4 children)
I disagree in principle because the parents imposed that bracelet upon their kid.
Just because the parents are dumb doesn't mean that the kid will be as dumb as they are. Especially since information is so readily available nowadays.
(Score: 5, Touché) by takyon on Monday September 04 2017, @05:23AM (2 children)
Here's some info for ya:
https://www.energymuse.com/bracelets [energymuse.com]
https://avscientificsupportarsenal.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/vaccines-do-cause-autism-undeniable-scientific-proof/ [wordpress.com]
http://timecube.2enp.com/ [2enp.com]
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday September 04 2017, @10:31PM (1 child)
Thank you for the link to the Time Cube, it's been years since I've read it, and it's as fresh as ever.
Also, the healing bracelets will no doubt help me capture pure energy...
Oh, no, they're for women only!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @11:30PM
This is legit info, so I don't know what to think.
(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Monday September 04 2017, @12:07PM
Given that the kid is now suffering from serious lead poisoning, I'm guessing he'll end up even worse than his parents.