Okay, this was too good not to post here.

In that Tom Cruis video, there's a segment on 9/11. In it, they claim that it was obvious that the air was toxic because the firefighters/police officers/first responders sweated purple (LOLWUT).

Turns out? Not so much.

To quote MollyBloom on it:

There are iodine based soaps that you can wash with.
If you use an iodine based soap to wash a towel, dry it then lightly starch it and get it wet (sweat on it) it will turn anywhere from light purplish blue to dark purple.

The towel is a lie.

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rikiki
2008-03-03 12:09 am UTC (link)

Rofl.
I didn't know there were iodine-based soaps, but at least at my school, I think it would be hard to get out of BIO101 without knowing iodine turns purpley in the presence of starch. (Or else it's just that I ended up getting a job as a lab assistant, so I've dealt with the same labs five semesters, now, lol.)

Also, if you make a towel-shaped cake, will the double lie make it actually true?

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	sparkysrevenge 2008-03-03 10:11 am UTC (link)
	I know iodine turns purple, and I did horribly in biology and chemistry. It's not rocket science. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sparkysrevenge 2008-03-03 10:13 am UTC (link)
	Though one could say by the amount of times I got injured in elementary school, I was exposed to plenty of iodine... ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pipssister 2008-03-07 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Wow. That's kind of amusing but I feel really bad for all of those first responders who've been genuinely duped. That shit is awful quack science, here. (Reply to this)

	anarchicq 2008-03-13 08:42 am UTC (link)
	See, the other week I was watching House and it was talking about "if we do this and this and this it will turn purple" and I automatically thought of the Scientology 9/11 thing and went "huh". Who says TV isn't edumakashunal? (Reply to this)