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Originally Posted by MightyDog
Oh my, I think I best not wade into the astonishing amount of denial on this thread. In the 21st century, I wouldn't have guessed it would still be running so deep.
--- Signed, Child whose father died (brain cancer) 20 years sooner than he should have because of the KNOWN (to management) cancer-producing chemicals being pumped into the air and water where he worked.
Their complicity, eventually, resulted in the largest class action lawsuit in American history.
(But, you all keep making fun of exposure to chemicals primarily policed only by the chemical producers themselves. SMH!)
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I am sorry about you father. I understand how painful this is for you, I think.
When it comes to “denial” about chemicals, you’ve heard of the boy who cried “Wolf!” too often. Most people are not chemical researchers. They hear this and then they hear the opposite from another source. It is hard to know who to believe.
Nature kills you, natural things kill you. Who invented tuberculosis, malaria, think of any disease? Most occur naturally in places where there are no chemical industries to blame in the first place. Why is life expectancy so much shorter in countries with very little industrialization?
Then there is individual sensitivity, look at peanuts, for example. People with peanut energy can die from just breathing them. But peanuts serve as nourishment to many others. So should peanuts be banned from the many on the basis of the very few truly allergic? The answers vary.