HN always cuts off these fluff words in the beginning, like "Why" and "How". Often, it completely butchers the title. I think it's a stupid policy, but here we are.

This is a HN feature meant to de-editorialise the given headline, I personally think it does more harm than good as in this case

The issues are actually more pernicious, and something else, and its not a matter of common sense, which as we all know is quite uncommon.

The issue is, misinformation spreads more cheaply and rapidly, and is amplified more than true information. It has been designed and made this way through purposeful intent by not addressing the issues prior to integration for our communications channels. (i.e. doing nothing).

The noise drowns out the true information, and these are the things they aren't saying. There are also blindspots that may make us more susceptible to adopting misinformation, as well as physiological responses such as dopamine spikes that may be triggered, that make one more susceptible.

Today, we live in a world of Anathem. You need quite a rigorous approach to vetting information today and quite a lot of information can be neither proven true nor false.

Whenever you have entities seeking total control, they will reduce the availability of true information. This is because the loss of an objective reality is what they are seeking.

These issues are happening because our communications platforms have been compromised by malicious entities, and the companies involved seek to benefit themselves as well as their corporate masters to use that to manipulate those engaging with it and putting out of business any competitors that might be a competitor.

> I wouldn't drink bleach even after contracting an Ebola-rabies-cordycepts combination.

I think you misspoke here. Technically, what you do comes down to being all in the dose when it comes to safety which is the implication you seem to be making albeit indirect and non-communicative.

As a contradictory example, if you swallow by accident or drink pool water, or municipal water, you have in fact actually had a drink of bleach, as well as a number of other chemicals depending on the pool or substructure/subsystem.

It is not pure bleach which comes in various higher % concentrations, or molar concentrations, which we naturally assume as dangerous if swallowed.

The same goes for the municipal water supply which uses the Chlorine in bleach to disinfect.

The dosages differ dramatically, in orders of magnitude of ppm compared to oz to gallon ratios.

> Trial and error also helps.

Given the absence of true information with a jammed noisy communications channel, you have to generate the true information somehow (in isolation) if you have a need for that information (that others may need as well).

There are dangers in doing that though because you are doing so without a safety net. For example, if one has kidney issues or liver issues following that advice may cause injury or death, and even long-term use can lead to higher incidence of issues, like diverticulitis if you don't get sufficient fiber, or gall-bladder sludge/stones which may be formed when you are kicked out of ketosis unexpectedly from sugar poisoning (when you asked for a coffee with a sugar substitute and they didn't make it that way). The gallbladder sludge may be normally broken down when you get sufficient amounts of vitamin C, but there's very little proven true information out there.

There can be many benefits, but without knowledge, which is the seeking of truth, and rigorous approaches; its a guess, and the long-term implications and risks need to be properly informed, otherwise you end up just adding to the noise.