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Don’t hold back progress based on unfounded fears.
by refurb 2y ago
Don’t hold back progress based on unfounded fears.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThat industry won't properly test for safety and hide evidence as long as possible is not unfounded. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237242/ > Our review of industry documents shows that companies knew PFAS was “highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested” by 1970, forty years before the public health community. Further, the industry used several strategies that have been shown common to tobacco, pharmaceutical and other industries to influence science and regulation – most notably, suppressing unfavorable research and distorting public discourse.