Posted on 07/15/2005 2:06:25 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
OTH Obstetricians are usually blamed for cerebral palsy - a disease whose root cause still remains elusive. Perhaps this finding is a link in the chain ...
Stupid article. No measure of how much of what chemicals were found. Nor was a benchmark mentioned for comparison. These chemicals are probably in such infinitesimal amounts as to be considered less than neglidgable. We are what is and you are what you eat. Ashes to ashes and all that.
Speaking of ashes, I wonder how many of the mothers smoked.
LOL! Not to mention those dreaded, gasp, MOLECULES...
The elusive subject matter is soaked in hyperbole and chemical fears, this reader finds.
Exactly.....pollution.......must be stopped.......must be GWB's fault.....move on.......
I once read a story of a woman who actually pour the chemical dihydrogen monoxide all over her baby.
!Heavens! Next thing you know, they'll be exposed to COMPOUNDS and SUBSTANCES!"
Oxygen dihydride, sodium chloride, deoxyribonucleic acid...it's a crisis!
Don't forget the Eeeeevil Molecules and Elements!
I think the real question is how the human race ever managed to make it to this time. What with eating red meat, spraying with DDT when we were young, parents smoking inside the house, good smelling fumes when filling the tank, no signs telling us that some chemicals are known to the state of California to cause cancer, and the big one, sun tans every summer. Egad I feel old.
Zero conception rate thus no polluted babies either
And if that's the case, why then would they want to preserve stem cells?????? I would love to ask them.
Samples taken from illegal immigrants from China, kong kong, India, And mexico after they were arrested working in portable methadone labs set up in Semi trailers with no ventilation.
Some study. Lets' try a study with some controls and see what we get, not something done by a group with a political agenda.
Wrong! The Left uses environmentalism as one of many tools to frighten people and strangle what is left of industrialism in the U.S. Ultimately, the beautiful natural world would be better off without wicked people spoiling it, Comrade. Genocide is the ultimate destination of Socialism.
I'm a biochemist, and I was about to post something along the same line.
Actual environmental levels of some toxins are decreasing--for instance, dioxin levels peaked in the early 1970s and have been decreasing ever since.
Plants produce vast numbers of complex organic molecules. The poison in one tobacco plant can kill a man. Broccoli has hundreds of natural pesticides, some of them not even described yet, and some of them known to be teratogens (causing birth defects) or mutagens (causing DNA mutations and perhaps cancer.) Toxic metals have been in the water forever in some places. Eat the wrong part of the wrong animal, and you can give yourself Vitamin A poisoning, tetrodotoxicosis, hyperthyroidism, or an overdose of steroids. Volcano plumes are a witches' brew of nasty, corrosive, toxic chemicals.
The natural world is full of poisons and always has been. Our bodies evolved to deal with small amounts of toxins long before there was an Industrial Revolution. 98% of the claimed benefits of "organic" or "natural" food is bunk.
-ccm
Thanks for confirming. My friend passed away some years ago, so I have no expert nearby to whom I can turn with questions. One of the brightest people I've ever met. He was given a professorship as soon as he finished his Ph.D. -- never heard of anyone else so honored!
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