[HN Gopher] Phthalates damage babies' brains and must be banned ...
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       Phthalates damage babies' brains and must be banned immediately,
       say experts
        
       Author : daegloe
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2021-02-20 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ruined wrote:
       | it is continually revealed that modern industry is poisoning us
       | all, over and over again, for little to no reason. in the rare
       | instance the political will is generated to act against one thing
       | or another, the regulation is sidestepped with analogs, and
       | buried a hundredfold with other new profitable inventions. there
       | is no reason to believe this destructive process is slowing or
       | stopping. we and our children are all debilitated in both subtle
       | and drastic ways that we absolutely do not understand. the past
       | century of industrial/biological experimentation will be looked
       | back upon as one of the greatest and most senseless crimes ever
       | committed.
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | By their own admission these chemicals are everywhere, and yet by
       | a lot of measures people are more healthy and living longer than
       | before... I feel just a bit suspicious.
        
         | happytoexplain wrote:
         | >and yet by a lot of measures people are more healthy and
         | living longer than before
         | 
         | This argument doesn't make sense to me without something more
         | specific. Just because such high level concepts like "health"
         | and length of life continue to increase, that doesn't
         | invalidate any particular malady.
        
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         | wittyreference wrote:
         | There are multiple variables in play at one time. Like, ...
         | every other thing in medical science and public health. It
         | would probably be more helpful if someone went ahead and just
         | looked closer at the activity of the compound of interest, and
         | saw what impact it had in isolation.
         | 
         | We could call these people researchers, in honor of their
         | tenacity in scrutinizing and re-scrutinizing their work and the
         | work of others. And when their work impacts the health of the
         | many, maybe we could use mass communications technology to
         | share it.
         | 
         | Pie in the sky, I know.
        
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