Such blinkered bullshit. No, by the extremely narrow definition of "removing toxins from your body" they don't "work". However, there are many other positive reasons why you ought to take a break from filling yourself with crap. I went on a detox in 2001, and it changed my life.https://twitter.com/DavidJuurlink/status/947143165038825472 …
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Replying to @dansumption
Do you think it's reasonable to object to something called a "detox" on the grounds that it doesn't remove toxins? If there's another useful thing, sounds good. But don't use terminology if the best defense is "you can't understand that term by its plain English meaning"
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Replying to @wycats
Scientists and the general public mean very different things by the term. It's far from the only word that has come to mean something broader than its lexical origin.
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Replying to @dansumption
Both scientists and the general public mean "a regime to remove toxins from my body" If the general meaning wasn't about removing toxins, you wouldn't see the word toxin so much in plain English descriptions of these programs.
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Replying to @wycats
So which toxins exactly is a "social media detox" intended to remove?
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Replying to @dansumption
That's an analogy and I agree unlikely to be confused. Do people talk about "Social Media cleanses"? Most of the time when you see people pitching detoxes they are talking about literal toxins.
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Replying to @wycats @dansumption
If you aren't talking about literal toxins, and your program might be confused as talking about literal toxins, I'm suggesting picking a different name might help people soften to it. "Toxin" is toxic, no pun intended.
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Replying to @wycats
Most of the time people talk about detox, they are talking about cutting bad things out of their life. Without regard to whether or not those things are literally toxic.
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I can believe that there are groups of people for whom that's true. I'm saying that among my circles, "detox" is universally associated with sham pseudoscience, and suggesting that serious non-pseudoscience programs could be more effective *for me* with different naming.
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