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Measuring Pollution In Humans

Posted by Hemos on from the you-come-out-to-3.5%-filthy dept.

CHaN_316 writes "Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our body and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site. They've found things such as flame retardants, chemicals derived from DDTs, mercury, uranium, cotinine, and many more. The concern is a lot of this stuff is ending up in mother's milk. But hey, at least in the event of spontaneous combustion, I'll be partially protected."

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  1. None of us are getting out of here alive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    While I am glad that there are people that get worried about this stuff (it's fun to watch and who knows, they might even be right about something) I can't think of one major food health scare that held up under scruntiny.

    Alar on apples. Bogus

    Silicon Breast Implants Bogus

    DDT Mostly Bogus

    Somewhere along the way we lost our ability to actually use science and facts to evaluate things and have fallen back on a faith based consensus pseudo-science.

    Remember, None of us are getting out of here alive. Life - A sexually transmitted terminal disease. Always fatal.