[HN Gopher] Chemicals in Plastic Waste Are Killing Us
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Chemicals in Plastic Waste Are Killing Us
Author : buddhacobbler
Score : 28 points
Date : 2020-12-19 18:36 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| asdfasgasdgasdg wrote:
| Low effort article, possibly even just blogspam. Says plastic
| waste contains a diverse list of endocrine disrupting chemicals.
| Doesn't say how much of each or which ones have been found to be
| medically significant. No evidence presented that the chemicals
| are actually making their way into our bodies in clinically
| significant quantities.
| userbinator wrote:
| Moreover, it's hard to take articles like this at face value
| when a lot of other statistics regarding quality of life, such
| as infant mortality and life expectancy, have been constantly
| improving for at least a century.
| chordalkeyboard wrote:
| They should have included links to the study and to the
| conference that they referred to.
|
| > Doesn't say how much of each or which ones have been found to
| be medically significant.
|
| Plastic waste is probably not uniform enough to make those
| measurements and have them be correct for other collections of
| platsic waste.
|
| > No evidence presented that the chemicals are actually making
| their way into our bodies in clinically significant quantities.
|
| Its probably not wise to wait until the water supply is
| contaminated with medically significant amounts of endocrine
| disruptors to tell people there's a problem.
| asdfasgasdgasdg wrote:
| To be clear. Blogspam can reference true facts and events and
| still be blogspam. I think something should be done about
| plastic waste and contamination. But I don't want to reward
| the entity that created this article with clicks.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| It's kinda ironic how a serious topic like environmental
| pollution is itself beset by information pollution.
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| Low effort comment, possibly just confused and in denial
| poster, or maybe a shell. Says because the article is blogspam,
| it is questionable that plastic pollution is harming humans at
| all. No evidence presented that they have sought out any
| information on the matter, just nitpicking apart the original
| article.
| criley2 wrote:
| Ironically, the person you are commenting to is not making a
| low effort comment and is expressing a pretty basic case of
| skepticism. Scientific mysticism and "metaphysics" are very
| popular, just see the unfounded paranoia over "GMO". Turning
| a skeptical eye to scary sounding articles that have very
| little research underpinning them shouldn't be controversial.
|
| However that appears to have emotionally triggered you as
| you've launched into a mocking trollish reply where you've
| respoken their comment, except turned it into one big
| condescending insult towards the OP.
|
| Shame on you. Shame on lowering the level of discourse here.
| This is beneath you and this community.
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| Some information from the original source:
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| https://www.endocrine.org/topics/edc
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| their research is here:
| https://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/36/6/E1/2354691
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