Posted on 10/01/2015 7:57:01 AM PDT by smokingfrog
I never saw goalies that were not wearing gloves.
Thanks to the gov’t demonization of tobacco, people believe that exposure to trivial amounts of substances have grave consequences, as if it’s radioactive material or weaponized botulism toxin.
People naturally conclude that if one whiff of second hand smoke is “harmful” then exposure to anything else that might contain something harmful is just as deadly. This is also the irrational basis for most aversions to immunizations. The gov has brought this on itself.
In truth, if the turf is so harmful, you’d be getting cancer closer to the vehicle of exposure - skin cancer from scraping against it, or lung cancer from inhaling dust.
In fact, you’d be inhaling more “tire dust” just driving on the road or living near a busy one. Tires gradually wear out by being burned off from frictional forces. The resulting “dust” does go somewhere.
Nevertheless, before claiming turf or tires as a “cause”, it could easily be verified by performing an autopsy looking for such material deposits in their bodies.
Not likely.
Baseball, Softball, Football, Lacrosse...
This could be the next soccer mom, vaccine like nuttiness cause...
My kid played on artificial turf and that's the reason he's an idoit, it ruined his brain...
Give me money...!!!
Dang! I missed that one!
Actually no, it has nothing to do with the ball... it has to do with the goalie spending so much time on the ground/turf itself. Imagine that a goalie dives onto the turf to continually make saves and gets skin breaks on his/her knees and legs... the carcinogens from the crumble can easily enter the blood stream. Also, I have read reports where goalies end up with the turf in their mouths, in their hair and pretty much all over them by the end of a game. Now maybe the stuff is benign but if not they sure do get a lot of exposure from it... Would you want your child spending hours every week rolling around in old tires?
I am no fan of liberal NBC news, but a broken clock is right twice a day, and this may be one of those times.
All those people that work on a NASCAR pit crew should be dying off pretty quickly due to exposure from tire dust, I would think.
Government funded research studies
1) $171,000 To Study How Monkeys Gamble
2) $856,000 To Film Mountain Lions Running On Treadmills
3) $50,000 To Study Synchronized Swimming For Sea Monkeys
...
6) $331,000 To Study Whether “Hangry” Spouses Are More Likely To Stab Voodoo Dolls
That’s enough..
Yes, wondered about contact with the surface, too. There sure were a lot of young people mentioned.
I just wondered why they didn’t mention other than goalies - or didn’t emphasize it.
Uh oh. I thought only the carpet at Catherine Zeta Jones’s house caused cancer.
Probably no more than good old fashioned dirt, mud, grass, grubs and worms.....
your compassion for families who have lost children to childhood cancer is overwhelming... if it was your child you would want to know why. This has nothing to do with concussions and everything to do with non-hodgkins lymphoma.
How is it we have lost the love and compassion of our fellow man? Maybe it’s the turf maybe it isn’t .if you have children I hope they remain healthy and should tragedy strike I wish you more love and compassion then you have shown others.
Because goalies spend the most time on the turf.. their entire bodies are constantly exposed to it during the course of a game, not just their feet like the other players. They have many more times the level of exposure.
Still, there should be problems with some of the other players, too. Practice times, etc.
“she came to believe that artificial turf used on soccer fields was the culprit”
No need for medical studies, a grieving mother has a hunch. Get the pitchforks!
Do you have a reading comprehension problem ?
If you have lost a child to cancer, you have my sympathy...
My post was in no way lacking in compassion or mean...
This mother is trying to blame her child’s death on a fantasy...
This type of nonsense just fuels other child cancer deaths building a movement instead of a accepting life is not fair sometime...
I doubt it. Maybe in indoor fields, but if its outdoors, sunlight is one of the best antibacterial agents known to man.
“the carcinogens from the crumble”
Which carcinogens are we talking about here, exactly?
“How is it we have lost the love and compassion of our fellow man?”
Since when does love and compassion mean that we have to entertain peoples’ foolish and illogical notions?
Your post was mean and ignorant, my children have lost classmates and friends to pediatric cancer.
You seem to have decided their claims are baseless, in your words a “fantasy” without reviewing any of the science. How do you know that the turf didn’t cause the cases of pediatric non-hodgkins lymphoma cases? Wouldn’t further studies be worth while if it mean future soccer players were spared a similar fate?
regardless of why children end up sick or injured they are valuable and don’t deserve your “idiot” designation.... but perhaps you consider that kind..
time for a new tag line...
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