Get Potassium Iodide Or How Respond To The Present Irrationality?
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 04:21
in Mathematics & Economics
In Nanjing, that is close to Shanghai, and I suppose also in other places around here, you cannot buy salt anymore. Every last grain has been bought up. Why? Apparently, some evil guy started the rumor that table salt, which is sodium chloride (NaCl), can protect you from radioactivity. We are not talking about iodide salt here, nor even sea salt either, which has some iodide in it, but simple salt, which there is already way too much in the Chinese diet. So I check my blog comments this morning, and guess who the culprit is? IT IS ME! According to the comments to my last article, I am the one to blame! How so? read more