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Hm your anecdata is pretty concerning..

• wincy 3y ago
  I don’t disagree with you, but I wasn’t going to exclude it from the discussion. I’m not trying to convince people to use IGRs or other potentially dangerous chemicals. We all have our risk tolerances and while I don’t think it’s related, it’s also worth stating. If I thought there was a correlation, I’d for sure sue. But the birth defect my daughter has is often caused by a lack of vitamin B at a vital part of the gestation process. I hadn’t been an exterminator or sprayed my house for bugs for that matter for over a decade when she was born, and my wife and I had a perfectly healthy kid three years before. The roach treatment in my house occurred years after my daughter with a birth defect was born. The correlation is extremely weak at best. Furthermore, while I’m not saying it’s impossible, but in my mind it feels very unlikely, especially as my wife was never exposed to any of those chemicals. Also, it’s not a genetic defect, which would come from the father, but more a mechanical one in gestation (failure to fully develop and build the spinal cord).
• bee_rider 3y ago
  Anecdata is not a thing. I think this kind of data must be collected systemically, and if it isn’t, it is a failure to ask lawmakers about, not ex-pest-control professionals.
  • mathgeek 3y ago
    Anecdata is recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary [1] and has been around since the 1940s. That being said, the usage here probably doesn't mean what the downvoted commenter was implying. [1] https://www.oed.com/dictionary/anecdata_n https://www.oed.com/dictionary/anecdata_n