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by _8j50 1056 days ago
Because I need evidence to believe stuff, not just claims. Everything causes cancer according to random scientists out to get published. There was even a front page post recently of a study about most foods having had a research claiming they cause cancer. Correlation is not causation. Be specific. Endocrine disruption claim is the only thing i see in that article not cellular harm. "These things are sneaky" is not good enough. It's like saying bananas are bad because they're radioactive. You can swim in the coolant water of a nuclear reactor and come out just fine. Plastics have been ubiqutous since around the time human life expectancy started skyrocketing. Where is the rise in mortality or cancer rates associated strictly with plastic microwaving people and how exactly is the harm caused?

I do not have to accept lazy science or claims that have alarmism without specific evidence.

This might be legit but it seems no one has learned from climate change, how making a lot of "trust me" claims has the opposite effect. Reasonable presumptions and speculations are not evidence. And if there is evidence, I would like to make this about FDA's incompetence not consumers' negligence.

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Look up Dr Shanna Swan work