[T'wit]

A biochemist friend warned me many years ago that our ability to detect chemical substances was improving by an order of magnitude every three years. The environmental movement has long since turned this increasingly sensitive testing into a weapon of war. The cheat is, they don't tell you that the amounts discovered are infinitesimal.

Conspicuously absent in the above "article" is any mention of the quantity of toxins found. If the amount of chemical is trivial, the danger from it is trivial.

[KeyWest]

A biochemist friend warned me many years ago that our ability to detect chemical substances was improving by an order of magnitude every three years. The environmental movement has long since turned this increasingly sensitive testing into a weapon of war. The cheat is, they don't tell you that the amounts discovered are infinitesimal.

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Which is the reason they are finding these things. Before they were undetectable. The real question is what is the tolerance level and how long are they there?

When a mother smokes, takes drugs, or drinks there is a much greater concentration of problematic chemicals than those in the article.

[Nathan Zachary]

A good example of that are these so-called "environmentalists" who were trying to create a scare about mercury levels in salmon off the west coast B.C.
Turns out mercury is ever present in the environment, the soil and finds it's way into waterways just from natural run-off and erosion, and has been with us since the beginning of time, along with many other "chemicals" which occur naturaly, from volcanic activity, deep earth pressure, etc.
A few years ago the technology to detect levels as small as they were reporting wasn't even possible. We have to beware of these scare tatics used by "greenies" (yes they are just as disgusting as the ones you pull out of your nose)

[exDemMom]

A biochemist friend warned me many years ago that our ability to detect chemical substances was improving by an order of magnitude every three years.

I'm a biochemist, and I was about to post something along the same line.

Actual environmental levels of some toxins are decreasing--for instance, dioxin levels peaked in the early 1970s and have been decreasing ever since.