• Miller@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Manufacturers have suggested users should not stop using their insect repellent simply because it does not repel insects. Insect repellent has many other benefits beyond repelling insects such as smelling bad and being sticky.

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      This is only applicable if mosquitoes are fed in the presence of DEET, and has been a fact or property of DEET since it was first produced

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        But the entire point of the repellent is that mosquitoes cannot feed in its presence and you are saying that it has been admitted not only that they infact can but once they have then they are more likely to come back. That is like a stab proof vest being marketed with the proviso that the vest does actually allow you to be stabbed and when you are stabbed it will encourage more stabbing later.

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            The entire point of lab work is that it mimics the real world because it can never be known it is not happening in the real world and the lab work implies mosquitoes do feed in its presence and having fed are more likely to subsequently re-feed.

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                The entire point is that you have no substantive reply and your supercilious argument collapsed under even light scrutiny but you do have two profiles to downvote people that might present alternative views. I think maybe you are a mosquito.