Peanut allergies have plummeted in children

Bizarre that this is the top comment as this would drastically increase the frequency of peanut allergies and, more than likely, end in multiple deaths. Research strongly suggests that the key is that the child eats peanuts before being exposed via other vectors (skin/lung) to avoid allergic reactions. Arisolizing the relevant proteins around infants is essentially fast tracking allergic reactions.

It is not bizarre, this place is like reddit or the news. Things seem plausible, until once in a while the discussion is something in your area of expertise, then you realise how full of shit everyone is.

At least here we have some exceptions, with some deeply knowledgeable people. But to offset that we have software "engineer" hubris.

You realize it was a joke, right

I smirked at the parent comment, and it didn't even slightly occur to me that someone might interpret its intent as serious and literal until I saw your comment.

In my experience HNers are extremely credulous.

As far as I can tell, there's no level of satire so heavy-handed and unsubtle that it won't get a reply taking it seriously. If anything, the more obviously ridiculous your suggestion, the more urgently HNers want to disagree.

I've been on the internet a long time. There are enough weirdos out there to make you understand humor doesn't scale, and it definitely doesn't scale across cultures.

Things are different when you actually know people but we killed that when we killed forums.

> Research strongly suggests that the key is that the child eats peanuts before being exposed via other vectors (skin/lung) to avoid allergic reactions.

New business idea: Allergen Feeder

That person wasn't lying or bullshitting, they were extremely obviously joking.

Old business idea: peanut farming

Funnily enough, one of the things we were recommended was a pack of mini nut butter jars. Made specifically for the purpose of being a easy way to expose little ones to a variety of nuts before they could eat the nuts themselves.

Then at each meal put a tiny amount on a spoon and give to the little one before feeding the actual meal, and each meal use the next one butter.

It was great. Sure I can buy peanut butter, or maybe cashew at a grocery store. But I've never seen pecan butter, Brazil nut butter etc.

Partly because reality is getting more stranger faster than satire. There's even an entire subreddit dedicated to that

Yeah, I don't think "surely no one seriously believes this" is viable now, if it was before. Of course, what you choose to do with that conclusion is still up to you.

That’s not a new business idea. It’s been a thing since they announced the new guidelines. You can just buy the stuff https://www.amazon.com/Stage-Mix-ins-Allergen-Introduction-A...

My wife and I were always going to feed our child anything and she’s liked eating food off our plate anyway since she was 6 months old or so, but it was something we considered. So far the only thing we haven’t given her is shellfish.

I think it’s actually a pretty good comment. Most people would not know that skin and food exposure are different. This is something you are told as a parent though. E.g. My daughter had a skin reaction to (chicken) eggs at week 29 but tolerates them just fine as food and we were not particularly concerned but if no one had told us I would have thought it was a problem.

Okay Jimmy, let’s get you to bed.

The "non-ingestion allergen exposure" thing is a dangerous and common misconception, and the business-idea "joke" doesn't hinge on knowing or recognizing this, nor does it encourage questioning that part of the premise.

I'm pretty sure the widespread adoption of Crocs heralded this tipping point. [viz., 'Idiocracy']

>You can just buy the stuff

Sadly, you cannot -- all the options in that listing are "currently unavailable."

haha, hilarious. I was going off past purchases. If you search, though, there are many alternatives https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Set-Food-Organic-Puree/dp/B0D9Y...

I've heard stories of parents feeding their infants peanut butter in hospital car parks, just in case...

tbf, there's also almost no level of satire about business ideas so heavy handed and unsubtle that some HNers won't think it's an idea worth pitching to an investor...

Autism-per-capita is very high here. :)

What a coincidence :)

Friday night I'm going to help move equipment for my good friends in Benign Pestilence.

They're opening for Barnyard Inoculations at the newly remodeled Allergen Aerator.

And the big headliner of the night is of course, Miasma.

Just back from the world tour.

It's going to be a deathly Metal night !

Yeah I think that’s the joke

A feeder early would be so much better than long series of injections, that have been used to build up immunity later in life. For serious sufferers of pollen type allergies.

I don't know if ingesting pollens early would help, but it's a thought! Mixed into honey, perhaps.

Poe's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Just in case: worth noting that honey is quite dangerous for infants because of the high risk of botulism, which infant immune systems struggle to fight off.

If it's supposed to be some sort of joke about sarcasm, I'm not getting it.