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Radium. Cigarettes. Asbestos. We've seen it plenty of times when a product comes out and people with an agenda to make money off it say "buy this, it works" an
by james_s_tayler 7y ago
Radium. Cigarettes. Asbestos.
We've seen it plenty of times when a product comes out and people with an agenda to make money off it say "buy this, it works" and then decades later it is discovered to have been toxic or harmful in some way.
Especially given the nature of this product, skepticism should be the default position.
- Clubber 7y agoRemember when the news constantly threw out countless articles about cell phones causing brain cancer? Remember, fear sells ads, so we should also be very skeptical of articles like these.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoBecause skepticism turns out to sometimes be unwarranted we should be skeptical of skepticism? You can't have it both ways.
- finnthehuman 7y agoParent poster is talking about fearmongering. Fearmongering isn't skepticism.
- your-nanny 7y agoasbestos was used to make a safer filter: oops
- mistermann 7y agoConsidering the lack of available facts in these articles, my suspicion is that it's not the ecig vendors who have an agenda in this case.