Naked Science Forum
Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: LeeE on 10/12/2008 18:55:24
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Below is a link to a 'popular' news article, about an item concerning hysteria published in the BMJ.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/10/nut_allergy_hysteria/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/10/nut_allergy_hysteria/)
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conclusion of that article:-
Which, we reckon, can more or less be summarised as: "Your kids are not going to die from exposure to peanut butter. Now get a grip on yourself, you nutter."
100% agree. I think I've posted about this in another thread.
What next? Only specialist nut shops to sell foodstuffs containing nuts or nut products?
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I once wrote a sketch about an air hostess who walked up the aeroplane ignoring people with dinamite, guns, knuckle dusters and swords. She then shouted at a woman at the back of the plane who had just openned a bag of nuts, claiming that they were a lethal weapon.
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I don't see why the rest of us should miss out on nuts just because a few children *might* die.
Mr G (Summer Heights High)