(5 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)
Loading ...
I’d never even heard of this phenomenon until a few months ago when a colloidal silver zealot posted a long screed about its benefits at a messageboard I frequent. Every other sentence was a condescending chip-on-its-shoulder bit of trollbait, and he predictably went completely batshit & drove off in the waaaambulance the moment somebody pointed out the weaksauce in his argument & data.
I got curious, though, and looked into it online. What followed was several hours of solid, wall-to-wall WTF.
And before the accusation is made: yes, I’m fully aware how easy it is tint somebody’s skin tone in photoshop –or any visual media, for that matter. The links below, also, weren’t picked with any real due consideration…just curiosity throwing darts in the webosphere. Consider it all a priori.
www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2007/12/23/man-with-blue-skin.html
orionsyndicate910.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/health-food-scam-colloidal-silver/
www.webanstrich.de/rosemary/argyriaphotos.html
www.jerekwolcott.com/blog/?paged=2
May 15, 2010 at 2:17 am
i actually lol’d at kelsey grammer
May 18, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Duergar?
May 20, 2010 at 11:15 am
I’ve already seen most of this photos, these are not shopped, you can also find some movies on youtube.
But… guy on the third photo looks really weird, like starved smurf…
May 20, 2010 at 6:28 pm
yeah and why is casemods there with him?
why is casmods sans sale price designer label shirt??
May 20, 2010 at 11:48 am
Paul Karason was actually on TV a while back when the health channel was doing a piece on Colloidal Silver poisoning. It was pretty interesting since I myself used to take it. Use to make it myself as well.
May 20, 2010 at 12:48 pm
haha, ionic silver is fail juice
May 20, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Do your fingernails have that lovely periwinkle hue, like his?
Seriously, though: I take it you stopped, what with the “poisoning” aspect…?
May 20, 2010 at 6:43 pm
In a sense..it IS silver poisoning. You can die from it eventually. At least that’s what the show said.
May 20, 2010 at 11:54 am
Brings a whole new meaning to the term “Blue Balls.”
May 20, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Wicked halloween customs! 4 life!
May 20, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Someday, some nut is going to sell lead pellets and write a whole article about how lead being classified as poisonous was a huge conspiracy by the big drug companies.
May 20, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Yeah but lead has been long provide to be toxic, especially if methylated; much like how silver and gold has been proven non-toxic. Go to a store and look for silpure products in bedding for example.
May 20, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I’ve got a Health Encyclopaedia from 1959 on my bookshelf and I looked up Argyria and it said “see Pigmentation of Skin”.
Pigmentation of Skin has a whole bunch of stuff, including albinism and other disorders but here’s what it said about Argyria:
Administration of arsenic may cause skin pigmentation and the taking of silver nitrate may lead to a leaden-grey hue of the whole skin (argyria).
May 20, 2010 at 6:45 pm
I’ve had arsenic poisoning before. Not very fun since it makes you obviously sick but also turns you yellow for a few days. Don’t burn chemically treated pallets.
May 20, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Heard about the blue people of Kentucky?
www.associatedcontent.com/article/2032376/the_blue_people_of_the_kentucky_hills.html?cat=37
I don’t actually know how accurate any of that article is. But it is interesting.
May 21, 2010 at 8:50 am
What…no Avatar jokes?