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Drugs In Our Drinking Water
MikeURL alerts to a AP story just published after a months-long investigation on the vast array of pharmaceuticals present in US drinking water. These include antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones, as well as over-the-counter drugs. Quoting: "To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe. But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health."
It might be far below a medical dose, but the question is: Why are they putting it in drinkwater in the first place?
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Living in SoCal, I wouldn't drink that Colorado river piss anyhow. Do people really drink tapwater anymore?
No its not idiot. Dehydrated means out of water u fuking moron
Even assuming you're telling the truth, "Correlation is not Causation".
Kinda like CO2 vs global temperature?
Bottom line is, in today's science: "Correlation is not causation, when we think it isn't."
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