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What is the modern unknown danger doing the same thing today?
by newsclues 3y ago
What is the modern unknown danger doing the same thing today?
- sn41 3y agoMy bet would be microplastics.
- karmelapple 3y agoCancer is rising in younger people. [1] The proliferation of plastic seems like a pretty clear correlation, although I'm sure causation won't be easy to prove. From [1]: > ... younger adults to be the only age group with an increase in overall cancer incidence between 1995 and 2020—the rate has risen by 1% to 2% each year during that time period. ... > Colorectal cancer, while still overwhelmingly a disease that affects older people, is now the leading cause of cancer death in men younger than 50 and second in women in that age group. The numbers have been rising steadily in people 55 and younger since the mid-1990s, according to the ACS. 1. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/cancer-in-younger-people-on-the-rise#:~:text=The%20ACS%20report%20showed%20younger,year%20during%20that%20time%20period https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/cancer-in-younger-people-o....
- newsclues 3y agoVery interesting thanks. My suggestion would have been social media.
- GalaxyNova 3y agophtalates
- speedylight 3y agoI think there’s too many to count.
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- kibwen 3y agoMemes. Recommendation algorithms. iPads as babysitters.
- technotony 3y agoSugar
- JoeMattiello 3y agoMicroplastics. Plastic food containers. Birth control in general and SSRIs and birth control in the water. PFAs. Seed oils. The war on fat and cholesterol in favor of sugars.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoI talk about many of these things and get labeled as a "Conspiracy theorist", particularly when you start observing that these are all known endocrine disruptors, that testosterone and sperm quantities are in free-fall among men world wide, and that precocious puberty is becoming normalized in girls simultaneously. But the moment that you bring up how there might be a environmental/biological component to the extremely rapid increase in LGBT identification, particularly in the youth, they think you're Alex Jones. Sorry, no. I'm simply someone who internalized the message that movies like "Children of Men" were sending.
- seoulmetro 3y agoI was with you until you started saying that the trend towards LGBT identification wasn't just people's emotions. People think you're Alex Jones because it's a very, very dumb reach. Punk wasn't something in the blood. Recent LGBT craziness is just a trend like any other.
- oarfish 3y ago> testosterone and sperm quantities are in free-fall among men world wide The problem is that this isn't true once you factor out disease status (such as obesity, which is rising).
- newsclues 3y agoYou’ve got to at least consider the effects of pharmaceutical birth control has on society. If you can’t question things for fear of being labeled a conspiracy theorist is a signal to question those things.
- oarfish 3y agoWhats wrong with seed oils? As far as i know, replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats (such as found in seed oil) is only beneficial.
- qpingo 3y ago[dead]
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThis example shows it wouldn't be an unknown danger. It would be something that experts know about and warn against. That certain cities and countries have already banned based on expert input. It would be something manufacturers know about and hide info on and actively lie about. It would be something that even after regulatory laggards like the US federal government ban it, is still inflicted on the globally poor and powerless. The recent thing about a pesticide affecting unborn children fits neatly for example.