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Maybe the US should do what the EU does and ban such substances the moment there is some proof that they may do harm, and the burden should be on the industry t
by mtgx 11y ago
Maybe the US should do what the EU does and ban such substances the moment there is some proof that they may do harm, and the burden should be on the industry to prove without a doubt that they don't cause harm.
Instead, the US government is trying to do the opposite by repealing such policies in the EU and making them more like in the US where anything is accepted until millions get cancer from it.
- sokoloff 11y agoWater may do harm (it causes drowning). Oxygen may do harm (it increases the intensity of fire). "May do harm" cannot possibly be the standard.
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> the burden should be on the industry to prove without a doubt that they don't cause harm This is incoherent. There are no substances like this.
- deelowe 11y agoExactly. This doesn't make any sense. Sunlight causes cancer. Maybe we should start there?
- DanBC 11y ago> Maybe the US should do what the EU does and ban such substances the moment there is some proof that they may do harm, We know that processed red meat causes cancer. Processed red meat has not been banned by the EU. There are countless other examples.
- sect2k 11y agoThat is just not true. The red meat part (http://chriskresser.com/red-meat-cancer-again-will-it-ever-stop/ http://chriskresser.com/red-meat-cancer-again-will-it-ever-s...). Also talc is legal in EU.
- DanBC 11y agoWhat? It is true. We know that processed red meat definitely causes cancer. It doesn't cause very much cancer - the risk is very small. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2015/571308/EPRS_ATA(2015)571308_EN.pdf http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2015/57130... Your link starts with hyperbole (no one is being told not to eat meat) Why are you telling me that talc is legal in eu? That just agrees with my point that eu does not ban things that we know are dangerous.
- oneloop 11y ago> It doesn't cause very much cancer I can tell you're an expert on the subject from the very technical language you use.
- DanBC 11y agoEDIT: holy fuck IHBT.
- oneloop 11y agoIf you think writing like an orc is "audience appropriate", you're mistaken. Here's a preliminary release on the original study: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanonc/PIIS1470-2045(15)00444-1.pdf http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanonc/PIIS1470-2045(... They picked a 95% confidence level, which means they accept that 1/20 of their positives will be false positives. They did this when conducting a study on "more than 15 types of cancer". These people are about as smart as you are.