[criddell]

I was surprised to find Amazon promoting customer reviews suggesting bitter apricot seeds can heal cancer.

https://www.amazon.com/Apricot-California-Pesticide-Herbicid...

The AI-generated summary of reviews ends with:

> The seeds are also mentioned as having cancer-healing properties.

Click on the "Health benefits" link to get many more suggestions of their cancer curing properties. One person was consuming them every hour and started to have difficulty breathing. IMHO, Amazon probably shouldn't be helping to spread this kind of misinformation.

[felipemesquita]

In NileRed’s video “Does cyanide actually smell like almonds?”[0] he purchases some bitter almonds to measure the amount of cyanide in them. He is also worried about the baseless health benefits claims.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYagO-nup6c

[progmetaldev]

I love that channel. Especially turning (I believe) nitrile gloves into hot sauce. Some of the chemistry he performs, I would never think of even existing. It's like people that say margarine is one molecule away from plastic, without understanding that all of chemistry works like that.

[sitkack]

Wait, can we just recycle plastic into margarine? Bubble wrap marmalade?

[userbinator]

Naturally occuring polymers like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid are indeed very similar to synthetic ones, in that they both contain long hydrocarbon chains of varying length.

[sitkack]

So we can take a barrel of crude oil and turn it into nacho cheese? What would that entail.

[userbinator]

One person was consuming them every hour and started to have difficulty breathing.

That's a Darwin Award candidate.