DEBUNKED: Beards Aren’t Filled With Poop
May 17, 2015
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as posted by the channelAna Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Jimmy Dore hosts of The Young Turks discuss whether beards are full of fecal matter.
"The irrational germophobia story of the week is that beards harbor “dangerous germs.” This story hits almost all the sweet spots of the genre: It has no actual data, no controls, nonsensical interpretation of results (such as they are), and a punch line that can be summed up in 140 characters or fewer. The only missing ingredient is that this study was conducted by a TV news station instead of the usual: a company that produces cleaning products.
In this “study,” the news station swabbed a few beards, sent them off to a company for analysis, and got back a report that the beards contained “germs,” specifically enteric bacteria, which are part of the human gut microbiome and therefore also found in feces. Voila: “Your beard is as dirty as a toilet,” and “Beards contain poop” sweep the Internet. Let’s take apart each piece of this misleading viral phenomenon."
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