That wasn't their goal. Their goal was to try to get people to realize that 99% of "medical advice" about drinking water is based on absolutely nothing. The toxins thing is only one of the claims of water's miraculous powers addressed in the article. They did not set out to, and never claimed to be trying to, prove or disprove anything about water. All they were trying to do was bring to light the vast amounts of myth, rumor, and pseudoscience that fuels our water-obsessed culture.

Errr, I mean, no comment.

I interrupt this to say:

Emergency Lemon!!!!!!!

It's a well known fact that drinking the juice from 23 lemons every day will flush toxins from your body (as they leak through the holes that are burned through various organ linings).

It was a metastudy which is a well established perfectly respectable endeavor. They weren't doing original research they were examining the body of research that existed to see if it supported the claims being made.