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A lot of commonplace stuff can cause harm above a certain dosage. Which is partially why Prop 65 is failing. 99% of things in Prop 65 are fine in moderation. A
by mathraki 6y ago
A lot of commonplace stuff can cause harm above a certain dosage. Which is partially why Prop 65 is failing.
99% of things in Prop 65 are fine in moderation. And the 1% that isn't (I would love to be warned of that myself) - well, it's lost among everything else.
- war1025 6y agoI think my favorite Prop 65 item is my broom, which apparently is cancer causing. Really no idea what would be in it that is worth being worried about.
- perl4ever 6y agoI got a rake like that. There were no non-cancer rakes for sale. I could only think maybe there is something used to assemble it with lead in it?
- repsilat 6y agoRight. Obviously if they put the sign on nothing, no information would be communicated. And the same if they put it on "50% of things" (defined however you like) because everyone knows the median thing isn't a real cancer risk. Maybe it could communicate the breaking of some threshold, but not a meaningful one. To be truly informative, binary cancer warnings should be rare -- they should appear near a threshold where reasonable people are likely to be swayed by them (but not certain to be swayed by them -- at that point we're probably labeling too few things.) But enough about binary labels, though. They should have to put figures on them: "Scientists believe that the cancer risk of this cup of coffee is statistically expected to decrease your lifespan by 5 minutes, plus or minus a day, with 95% confidence."