Putting the Next Generation of Brains In Danger

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 15, 2014 @02:25AM from the won't-somebody-think-of-the-brains dept.

An anonymous reader sends this news from CNN: "The number of chemicals known to be toxic to children's developing brains has doubled over the last seven years, researchers said. Dr. Philip Landrigan at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and Dr. Philippe Grandjean from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, authors of the review published Friday in The Lancet Neurology journal say the news is so troubling they are calling for a worldwide overhaul of the regulatory process in order to protect children's brains. 'We know from clinical information on poisoned adult patients that these chemicals can enter the brain through the blood brain barrier and cause neurological symptoms,' said Grandjean. 'When this happens in children or during pregnancy, those chemicals are extremely toxic, because we now know that the developing brain is a uniquely vulnerable organ. Also, the effects are permanent.'"

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Beta is spreading by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-15 02:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Danger everywhere.
1. Re:Beta is spreading by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-15 03:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Warning to future parents
  Exposure to Beta can cause the brain to release chemicals that can damage the fetus, eggs and sperm resulting in children that live to serve the Dice overlords
  Save future generations, fight Beta
2. Re:Beta is spreading by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-15 03:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Slashdot censors comments. If someone posts something they (Slashington) don't want to hear or they don't want their "audience" to hear - They delete them from the thread. As much as some don't like the anti-beta comments, do you prefer to participate in a censored discussion that is being manipulated by a bunch of corporate suits? Even Malda would have never let this happen.
  Think about it, if they censor anti-beta posts then it hides the revolt they're causing in their own "audience". But as it's obvious - no one wants their fucking Beta.
  They repeatedly they "we are listening to your feedback" and "it needs work we know that" They don't give a damn shit. Face it they haven't changed and thing and they won't.