Posted on 03/11/2023 10:29:17 AM PST by nickcarraway
This sounds a little hysterical.
There are literally tens of thousands of these fields in the US and no general epidemic of glioblastoma.
I would test the water in the stadium.
As did Gary Carter but he never played for the Phillies.
The average American uses 141 rolls of TP per year. That is 4.6 million tons of the stuff flushed into the USA sewer system every year. Then the solids get put onto farm fields.
I thought there was something similar from players who played at Kezar Stadium.
Callahan shot Scorpio there.
I write extensively about PFAs, but I’ll concede that I had no idea that PFAs were in artificial turf. It figures.
Expect to see more about PFAs in the coming years.
Sidebar: I wonder who’s responsible for placing all our local grammar school children at risk, because the fields are popping up EVERYWHERE.
Exactly.
You think this is hysterical, you should see the thread on a person dying at a young age. It’s the craziest conspiracy to ever grace a site.
I think the stadium is gone now, also Philly is where Legionnaires disease started.
What was that stuff that they put on the artificial turf that would kick up so that you could see where a foot landed?
They started putting rubber from ground up tires on fields for cushioning. Aerosolized tire rubber can’t be good for your lungs.
...a stretch, NC...
probably no fancy PFCs in them grubby tires tho
or PFAS or whatever the dang stuff is
yep, total bullcrap.
Teams only play about 8 home games a year in their stadiums. So exposure to EIGHT days out of every year supposedly gave these players cancer?
LMAO
Sounds like a money grab, because the maintenance crew at the stadium would of had 100 times the exposure!
I remember the fearmongering about Artificial Turf back in the late 1960s.
These are all baseball players who would play at least 81 games a year in Veterans Stadium in Philly. It funny that the Reds, Cardinals, Expos, Mariners, and Astros and a few more also played on artificial turf and they don’t seem to have this cancer problem.
If the football Philadelphia Eagles older retired players from the same era had this cancer then we could maybe draw a comparison. They played on this same turf and had way more contact with the turf in 8 games than Philly baseball players had in 81 games.
I do know the turf in Phila ruined many a pro footballer career.
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