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Posted on 04/19/2011 9:23:56 PM PDT by neverdem
The fact that something may be safe doesn’t mean I want it in my food. Insect parts are nontoxic and urine is sterile - I still don’t want to swallow them.
A good chocolate covered cockroach always makes my day!
Urea is slightly toxic. Why would kidneys filter out something if it was perfectly good?
Anyhow, it seems the Germans asked to err on the side of caution when first learning that the plastic additives had some kind of biological action, and then proceeded to study the matter empirically to see if there truly would be a problem. That seems the wise thing to do.
“I laid out this disturbing trend of misreporting in a Huffington Post article last fall”
and the HuffPos continued to screech and beat on rocks with small sticks, not yet having mastered science, math, and independent thinking.
It won’t matter. Once people get an idea into their heads, they won’t change their minds regardless of the evidence. For example, many mothers still believe sugar makes kids hyperactive, and that has been debunked repeatedly.
The whole world has been duped into thinking that we are swimming in hazardous toxins. It plays very well into the hands of the enviro-nuts who want to control our lives. Every few weeks the Center for the Science in the Public Interest comes out with a new scare story, and the media report it without questioning anything. We live in an anti-scientific age.
Too bad the Germans didn’t study DDT or Freon.
And “pthalates” sounds like an ancient Egyptian cuss-word.
So don’t eat plastic bottles.
The makers of stainless steel water bottles will be very disappointed about this study, too.
And, yet again, synergistic effects are ignored.
The train has already left the station on this. Children’s products companies have already invested million$ to switch from phthalate to citrate plasticizers in PVC, and undoing the worldwide regulations against certain phthalates is likely a non-starter. Retailers have already forced companies that produce infant products to commit to BPA-free plastics. Score 1 for the scientific fear-mongers and statist beaureucrats.
I am solidly convinced that a lot of these fears are simply efforts to slow down business growth in the US. Kinda like NAFTA and all that free trade crap. I hope the sonsofbitches are slapping themselves on the back for busting America’s economy.
Thanks for posting this.
I have printed it for two generations of younger relatives, who were not around when pseudo scientists killed rats or gave them cancer with safe products.
Marine organisms with eternal life can solve the riddle of aging (telomerase)
High-fat, low-carb diet may reverse kidney failure: study (diabetes related)
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
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AKA reasoning.
Think of the very name itself: Center for the Science in the Public Interest. It implies that there is some other “science” out there that serves a non-public and by implication nefarious purpose.
The only two true words in their name are Center and Interest. They want to be the center of control and that’s their interest.
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