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Profound Nonsense of The Day: Bleach Kills 99.9% of Germs

Published by boisson in Life
August 22, 2009

What you take to be an expert’s authoratative response about their new product could just as easily be just some fancy wordplay designed to get you buying it.

outhwash. Bleach.

Detergent.

What is the hidden link that allows us to associate the three above products together?

Not only do we use these in our everyday strive for hygiene, but they all supposedly kill 99.9% of germs.

Let’s look at that again:

“xxx peppermint mouthwash: Kills germs 99.9%! Buy two now for ….$$$ Yadda Yadda.”

And again:

“Kills Germs 99.9%…”

However, they don’t actually make it clear whether it is the bacteria in our mouth or not.
So therefore, this can be taken several ways:

  1. If I drip this onto a single germ, it will die 99.9% of the time.
  2. 99.9% of germs will die once they come into contact with the mouthwash – what the “marketeering” people want you to think. ; OR
  3. The mouthwash only affects 99.9% of all the known germs in the world.


^I might be that one in a thousand :3

What do you think? (: Who knows? It’s a possibility.

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3 Comments

  1. NameRequired
    Posted August 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Cool. Nice.

  2. NameRequired
    Posted August 23, 2009 at 4:26 am

    And your fixed version says “outhwash” at the beginning. :)

  3. Posted August 25, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Oh no! >< Now I’ll have to fix it again, again!

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