>> ^doogle:
sorry - I just think there's enough of this stuff on the 'Sift.



I Think there's worst videos in here and people still vote so..

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
It looks fake to me. Not the Mentos, but the coming in and getting the soda...


Glad my prediction came true.

I'm classifying all the mentos/diet coke stuff as *viral to help guide your online media consumption.

If this video gets popular I predict a heavy argument regarding whether or not this was 'staged'/"faked".

Still amusing. Good choice of 'victim' too.

Thanks for making me blow diet coke out of my nose. "I'll fly away o lord, oh I'll fly away.."

In reply to this comment by choggie:
heard the Vatican gave these monkey-head replacers all kinna monies...pope onna bird-body....now that'd be somethin'....

I don't usually snack while I'm sifting, but I do enjoy some Orville Redenbacher microwave popcorn: the movie theater butter flavor with the extra cholesterol-upping, artery-clogging meltable butter you pour over. And to go with my salties, I gotta have sweets: a pack of Twizzlers.

...and a Diet Coke.

>> ^choggie:
Aspartame causes this. People making money off shit bad for the body.
Fluoride, the same.
and phenylketoneurics....tell us, what is that??? Harmless huh???
Those above referenced statements sound like yer basic pap from the mind of some party-line insect....no doubt, some "expert"


Chogglestein, I'm not sure what two Psychologists would get out of writing an article for Skeptic magazine, claiming there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, maybe they're just sick and crazy doctors?

And are you referring to "phenylketonuric/phenylketonuria" which is an inherited genetic disease due to the faulty metabolism of phenylalanine? The latter which is found in most diet drinks? I've been diabetic for more years than I have fingers and toes, and have enjoyed diet Coke and diet Pepsi without incident in these times. Hell, for a year in my first apartment (I know I'm stupid so don't point it out) that's all I drank, between 6-10 a day. Was I addicted? No, I was addicted to alcohol at the time though! Now it's a random one, or two I enjoy a week, and I've yet to suffer ill effects from the phenylalanine or aspartame. And considering my condition, and sweet tooth, I've ingested more than my fair share of aspartame, I'm sure.

On the issue of the Vaccine-Austim hooplah, however, I'll of course concede that, yes, having such a large amount of shots in one day is over the boards, doing so could potentially injure a child. Also, Qruel, I understand the ppb mercury leves you cited, these vaccines, however, are not using methylmercury, they are using ethylmercury, which (I cite Wiki here): "Unlike methylmercury, ethylmercury has not been found to bioaccumulate.[1] The toxicity of ethylmercury is not well studied, but exposure standards based on methylmercury (such as those currently recommended by the EPA) are not demonstrated to be equivalent for ethylmercury. What does that mean? It means it is easily flushed and expelled by the human body. Unless, of course, a particular human body has problems with that. I note here, that we are all not the same 100% biologically, as Lewis Black said: "What's good for you might kill the bastard sitting next to you."

So, even though there is less observable, and confirmed, damage for ethylmercury, it is still treated as if it were as dangerous and bioaccumulated as methymercury.

Here's another article written by Kristina Chew, PhD, about the Vaccine-Autism hoopla, and her own personal experience with it, as her child has autism: http://www.autismvox.com/the-vaccine-autism-urban-myth/

Here's another good artice over at The Skeptic's Dictionary: The Anti-Vaccination Movement (AVM).

What is shown, for the most part, in these Vaccine-Autism cases is a correlative link. "100 of these 200 kids had X Vaccine, and they got Autism, ergo, the vaccine caused it." A few months ago I had a similar discussion with some "Right-to-Lifers" in my town over a billboard they put up outright saying that abortion caused breast cancer. The "evidence" they cited on their website was decades old, and all refuted by modern studies. Not to mention her strongest "evidence" was that in the last ten years in Canada the rate of abortions and breast cancer went up. I told her so did the use of computers in the home, does that cause cancer too? She screamed the same nonsense into me that "You don't think doctor's would lie about this to make money? What about cigarrettes!".

When it is a personal experience, with a lot of emotion involved, IE; parents with their children, you look for a pattern. We are pattern-seeking primates (as Dr. Shermer mentions in the Skeptic Mag article) and as Carl Sagan pointed out in Demon Haunted World, we tend to find lots of pattern where there is none.

As it still stands there is no solid scientific evidence to prove having these vaccines and children getting autism. I will gladly accept that they do when the evidence is presented.

And I'll say what I said to the Right-to-Life lady on the phone:

"Correlation dose not equal causation, you cannot have causation, not yours."

Well, I still stand by:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mentos-The-Freshmaker-and-no-Diet-Coke#comment-305314

Old
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mentos-The-Freshmaker-and-no-Diet-Coke

I still stand by:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mentos-The-Freshmaker-and-no-Diet-Coke#comment-241011

Dupe.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Man-has-near-death-experience-with-Diet-Coke-and-Mentos

Check out my reply to your comment. And I'll say it again: It's 100% true.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
there are somethings that just aren't possible, like:
-time travel
-dividing by zero
-getting a good blowjob from kronos' ex for anything other than a big mac and a large diet coke (if you have said payment ask her to take her dentures out for that pleasant gummy feel)

there are somethings that just aren't possible, like:
-time travel
-dividing by zero
-getting a good blowjob from kronos' ex for anything other than a big mac and a large diet coke (if you have said payment ask her to take her dentures out for that pleasant gummy feel)

Diet Coke with a Vengeance!

>> ^EDD:
very neat. at first glance at the name and the channels I thought it might be a bit of parody, but it was fun to watch nonetheless, Eia indeed. and it also made me wonder - have there been any mythbusters encounters with diet coke and mentos? must... research... on... intarwebs...


There was. They tested a few things, and tried to figure out which ingredient in the coke or mentos caused the reaction. Conclusion it was a combination of everything.

very neat. at first glance at the name and the channels I thought it might be a bit of parody, but it was fun to watch nonetheless, Eia indeed. and it also made me wonder - have there been any mythbusters encounters with diet coke and mentos? must... research... on... intarwebs...

I really disliked these spots. The use of a cute kid that talks to sell stock trades?!? I will not downvote, but wanted to say my peace...I feel better, I need a diet coke.