https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/its-like-putting-your-whole-mo/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/its-like-putting-your-whole-mo/#comment-3451 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:26:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/02/its-like-putting-your-whole-mo/#comment-3451 The irritating thing about this experiment is that it uses water as the dipping medium. I feel that that completely invalidates the results, as the viscosity is so much lower that of course any germs could easily spread throughout the medium via simple diffusion. With real dip, any contaminated dip [I hypothesize] would simply be carried up by the chip, and the dip itself would not be contaminated.Argh! Why must bad experiments be touted as the final authority on a hairy problem???

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/its-like-putting-your-whole-mo/#comment-3450 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:39:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/02/its-like-putting-your-whole-mo/#comment-3450 Everybody’s so concerned about mouth bacteria. What I worry about with shared food is butt bacteria. Too many people just don’t wash their hands! Beware the shared bag more than the shared dip.

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