I'm wanting to drink more water everyday but my parents (who I still live with) seem paranoid about drinking water straight from the faucet. They have this slow process of filling up pitchers with water and letting them sit exposed to the air for several hours to supposedly let the chlorine evaporate and then running it through a Brita water filter. It's an annoyance to drink water with this system because the filter takes forever and does at most 2 glasses at a time. My parents have all these weird notions about the effects of fluoride and chlorine and whatever else they use in modern water systems in the US. Knowing that my parents are steeped in pseudoscience and conspiracy theories (creationism, homeopathy, alternative medicine, contrails, etc) I'm suspecting that this water filter ritual we do everyday is just another unnecessary procedure brought on by scientific ignorance and fear.
They also think the filtered water tastes better but I can't tell any difference.
So, do water filters provide any substantial health benefits? Would I be harming myself or putting myself at risk in the long run to drink water straight from the faucet?
They also think the filtered water tastes better but I can't tell any difference.
So, do water filters provide any substantial health benefits? Would I be harming myself or putting myself at risk in the long run to drink water straight from the faucet?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
