# I pit be pseudoscience in commercials

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-be-pseudoscience-in-commercials/744170>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-be-pseudoscience-in-commercials/744170 "2016-01-25T13:06:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-be-pseudoscience-in-commercials/744170/41 "2016-01-27T04:47:47Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> Nobody can come remotely close to [Nutribullet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78eAPxoJtHs) for unscientific claims in advertising. At least since tobacco companies stopped advertising cigarettes as cough suppressants.

I bring you [Penta Water](http://pentawater.com/_pw/pentafacts.php?sub=1), the only bottled water with _60-70 ppm of USP medicinal grade oxygen is added to each bottle before it’s capped!_

Stranger

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**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-be-pseudoscience-in-commercials/744170/42 "2016-01-27T06:06:25Z")

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> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#):
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> In 2007 Sheryl Crow said that, for environmental reasons, people should limit themselves to one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit. She says she meant it as a joke, but that didn’t keep her from being the butt of many jokes herself.

What he said…

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-be-pseudoscience-in-commercials/744170/43 "2016-01-27T06:24:18Z")

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> [@dasmoocher](#):
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> What I want to know–is it radioactive!!!

Only by reflection.

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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-be-pseudoscience-in-commercials/744170/44 "2016-01-27T11:52:37Z")

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Not as egregious as some of the above, but the new Chobani ads touting its product with"natural sweetener", Stevia, is driving me nuts. “_ **Sucralose** _? That stuff has \*\*CHLORINE \*\*in it!” Like those couple of molecules of chlorine in the makeup of sucralose is the same as drinking bleach.

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