Okay fine. The quintessential example of bad reporting & bad science: 
The claim: Lemon wedges in restaurants are full of fecal bacteria from waitresses who have just left the loo, and if you've been using them, you're lucky to be alive.
The reality:

The claim: Lemon wedges in restaurants are full of fecal bacteria from waitresses who have just left the loo, and if you've been using them, you're lucky to be alive.
The reality:
- All produce has bacteria outside and inside it (the original study mentions this), and all hands will pass on what they have.
- "Fecal" bacteria (e. coli, referred to as "gram-negative" in the study) are everywhere, even inside us right now! & on our hands, and they don't hurt us unless our defenses are weakened (usually by poor diet) & the source is unnaturally high.
- Avoiding lemons won't solve anything - the waitresses in the restaurant I worked in made salad with their bare, unwashed hands.
- mood:
sick
AMDG

I'm way blind. HUGE coke bottle glasses until they invented a way to make them thinner. I *hate* being myopic. I hate that w/o my glasses/contacts I can't read standard text unless it's, quite literally, 2 inches from my nose. I hate knowing that, in a disaster, I'd probably die as soon as my last pair of glasses/contacts wore out, b/c I'd get eaten by a saber-toothed tiger or something. I also don't believe for a second that God created over 50% of the population to have defective vision.
- mood:
curious
AMDG


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