[SoftTalker]

I don't understand how The Guardian readers get through a normal day. Every headline on that page is doom-and-gloom news designed to get you to be fearful or panic about it.

[bitmasher9]

Doom-and-gloom, fear and anger are the predominant emotions in the entire journalism industry.

Very few places are doing any just-the-facts reporting.

[tokai]

The articles cover an actual study, that wasn't theoretical but based on data of sampling. What kind of just-the-facts reporting do you actually want?

[bitmasher9]

The language it uses to describe the story is clearly designed to make parents feel like the environment is unsafe.

Cherry picking scientific articles to cover that will cause fear is not just-the-facts reporting.

[estearum]

It... probably is unsafe for human babies (or even adults) to be ingesting compounds known to disrupt hormone production in mammals...

Contrarianism has become a mental disorder

[bitmasher9]

It’s not actionable information though.

[estearum]

Sure it is. People should be outraged about this and demanding vastly more testing, more research, and more regulation.

The vast majority of information published anywhere at any time is not any more "actionable" than that. You just don't like this information because it makes you uncomfortable... as it should.

[zer00eyz]

https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/scarred-for-life-the-epige...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6414251/

I don't think we are biologically far enough removed from "Oh my god, run, bear/snake/lion!"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1376114/

And we may not be built (biologically) for the level of comfort that the majority of us (more so here on hacker news) live in.

I think the doom and gloom serves a purpose for a lot of people.

[AndrewDucker]

Are they accurate or inaccurate?

Because I'd quite like to be informed about accurate incoming doom.