Surprise! There's misinformation on the internet!

I happen to have have a bottle of pomegranate juice at the moment, so randomly I thought I'd search to see what the antioxidants actually are in pomegranates- because it's apparently not one of the vitamins known for having antioxidant properties, as pomegranates rank pretty low in vitamin content.

So I found this terrible mini-article: www.associatedcontent.com/article/319115/the_top_fruits_for_antioxidant_value.html

Which contains this sentence of magnificent wrongitude: "Antioxidants are beneficial to the body because they can aid in the elimination of free radicals - bacterias known to cause damage to joints and flexibility, as well as contribute to debilitating illnesses"

Good job on that research there! I suppose the term 'free radicals' might give one a sense that whatever they are, they have free will or something. Regardless of what free radicals are, I'd hope that most people would know what bacteria are, and that singular it's 'bacterium' and plural it's 'bacteria'. On top of that, free radicals are just oxidizing molecules- not bacteria by far! Oxygen can be a free radical, and many free radicals actually serve beneficial functions- such as killing some bacteria. It's when there are too many, or they're in the wrong place that trouble occurs- such as the possibility of DNA mutation, which can cause cancer, when in contact with DNA.

If you don't understand science, or don't want to try to understand science, don't write about it.