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I thought everything is known to cause cancer in the state of California. Jokes aside, things that "cause cancer" do this to a varying degree, there are substa
by corty 6y ago
I thought everything is known to cause cancer in the state of California.
Jokes aside, things that "cause cancer" do this to a varying degree, there are substances where minimal doses cause cancer within your lifetime with certainty. Like plutonium. And there are substances, where a lifetime of heavy consumption increases your risk by just a measurable amount, like red meat. And then there is stuff that is known to cause cancer in mice, if you inject enough mice with multiples of their own bodyweight so they only just don't explode and maybe one of your 10k mice will test positive for a cancer marker.
Reporting should find a way to distinguish those properly and understandably, for experts as well as laymen.