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> As far as why such an obvious program isn't being carried out, it's because politicians Occam's razor: perhaps simply because the idea can't work. "Eighty-f
by robocat 3y ago
> As far as why such an obvious program isn't being carried out, it's because politicians
Occam's razor: perhaps simply because the idea can't work.
"Eighty-four distinct chemicals" - so what? There is already an uncountable number of man-made chemicals yet we are not all dieing of cancer at grossly accelerated rates beyond what's natural. Weak signals are hard to find in noisy data.
BBQed food is carcinogenic - does that mean we should ban the uncountable number of chemicals caused by a BBQ?
- photochemsyn 3y agoWell, maybe 95% of those 84 persistent chemicals are harmless - but if gastrointestinal cancer cases in young people consistently correlated with the other 5%, then you know where the problem lies. It's a pretty straightforward approach, and while testing labs cost money, at scale it would be a relatively minor cost.