For those of you who may have missed it, there was a spot today on All Things Considered about that terrible substance, dihydrogenmonoxide.

Yeah, that stuff is hazardous, but I fear the ubiquity of salicylic acid.

Dear Fiberbabe: but if many vegetables didn't sneak
salicylates into us, we'd all be vulnerable to myocardial
infarctions.

I fear the ubiquity of salicylic acid
Fear of ubiquitous things is of limited survival value: first of all they can't be that bad because otherwise we would not be here - and second, they are difficult to escape.
Thus, the fear may well do more harm than the thing feared.

the fear may well do more harm than the thing feared.

Surely right, Werner, and now a widespread modern phenomenon. Is that the cue for a coinage?
~ which is not the same as a queue for a coin age, or a Q for a quoinage
Perhaps something along the lines of fauxbia?

Hey, c'mon, weis bier. She said she feared salicylic acid's ubiquity. She din't say she feared salicylic acid.

She din't say she feared salicylic acid
Yeah, but didn't she mean it?!

Yeah, but didn't she mean it?!, he riposted, adroitly crossing threads.

he riposted, adroitly crossing threads

Yeahbut®, you're assuming he did it intentionally.