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by Nifty3929 22 days ago
"Aluminum (Al) is a widespread environmental contaminant " - they lost me right there in the very first sentence.

Already using charged, non-neutral language ("contaminant"), giving away their pre-existing bias and forcing me to disregard the rest of their opinion on the matter. Aluminum is no more "environmental contaminant" than any other extremely common basic element in the Earth's crust, like silicon or iron. Are they also against chlorine?

Clearly they decided to conduct a study to show just how scary aluminum is, and I have no doubt the succeeded.

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Yeah, it's the third most abundant element on the planet. If that's a contaminant, then so is iron and oxygen and nitrogen. Did you know Dihydrogen Monoxide is found in 100% of cancers?
This is a paper on ecotoxicology and environmental safety, so describing aluminum as an "environmental contaminant" makes sense in this context.

> "Did you know Dihydrogen Monoxide is found in 100% of cancers?"

Did you know humans intentionally consume water because they need it to survive, and do not intentionally consume aluminum?