In the 1950s I played with mercury as a kid, in a home filled with leaded paint and asbestos tile, ate lots of fish from Lake Erie (fed by the infamous Cuyahoga River)
and breathed air from the steel mills of the "flats" of Cleveland and the carbonaceous diesel exhaust of city buses. As a teenager I pumped thousands of gallons of leaded gasoline working at a service station.
I'm not sweatin' a little teflon in my omelet, LOL
God bless you...and you are right.
Ever try finding a Chemistry Set for your grand kids?
That was one of the joys of my youth...even ran the family out of the house with burning sulphur. And they lived to 90 plus.
So much of this is hyper-nanny fear mongering.
I'll bet none of these researchers ever fell out of a cherry tree after an afternoon of sucking on tree sap and gorging on black cherries.