To: Retired Chemist
(fill in the blank) causes cancer... according to "scientists", pretty much everything causes cancer...
Sure, if you expose rats to 10,000 times the normal rate of whatever...it will cause cancer. If you feed rats 10 bags of M&Ms every day for 20 years, they will develop cancer.. All we've learned from decades of junk science is.. Lab rats are 20 times more likely to develop cancer.
12 posted on
09/04/2002 7:54:58 AM PDT by
goodieD
To: goodieD
That's another problem with junk science. Too often it is reported that so and so triples the risk of cancer. But if the risk is 1 in 1 trillion before exposure and 3 in 1 trillion after, it's pretty minimal and should be ignored.
23 posted on
09/04/2002 12:01:30 PM PDT by
stremba
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