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I was trying to give you benefit of doubt that you didn't do enough due diligence when grabbing an article to link - hence I tried to throw an olive branch in the form of an actual article on geophagy to discuss.
But seeing how impolitely persistent you are that this article says something that it plainly does not makes me think that you're actually a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect and that you simply do not understand that the article title "Should we let kids eat dirt?" Isn't literally what the article is about.
Which is to say that if you're so confident that everybody disagreeing with you is wrong, please give us any quote in
where it even just implies that eating dirt healthy for children?
And as for everybody agreeing with you? You should really check the like:dislike ratio on your comments before saying that, because they tell a very different story. Literally your only comment with a positive ratio was the first one, and I'd be more than willing to bet that was from people who scrolled by it, felt your comment affirmed their belief, then left without actually reading the article.
It's fine if you and other people disagree with doctors, scientists and myself, who scientifically assert that exposure to uncontaminated soil is not dangerous and I could not care less about a "vote ratio".
Your votes are worth nothing, zero. 100 times 0 is 0, my illiterate friend.
I understand you're having trouble understanding the article(and all of the complementary articles that state the exact same thing), but I can read it and understand it. I care as much about your reading disability as I care about your downvote.
Mate, I literally said two entire comments ago that I agree that incidental consumption of uncontaminated soil is not dangerous or harmful.
But let me say this loudly enough for you to hear this time...
ACUTE INCIDENTAL CONSUMPTION OF DIRT IS NOT THE SAME THING AS CHRONIC INTENTIONAL CONSUMPTION OF DIRT.
The former is not dangerous =/= The latter is healthy.
If you can't wrap your head around that then there's no helping you.
And while the votes might not mean much to you, saying that everybody agrees with you whilst the public display of who agrees with you clearly shows you're full of shit is plain disingenuous.
Anyways, I've got better things to do than argue with a brick wall who'd rather call others stupid than actually stand behind their own argument - so I'm gonna leave it here.
Agree with me louder, though.
Now now, stop playing pretend, I didn't say "everyone". Scientists, anthropologists and doctors agree with me that incidental oral exposure to soil(eating dirt) is probably not harmful and potentially-to-likely healthy, not "everyone". You, for instance, seem very anti-science/illiterate about the whole thing.