• MagicianWithABadPlan@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    100% of people die having had at least 64oz of water in their lifetime. Stop drinking water! Seriously though, this article is 10/10 on the bullshit meter. The “research” link is to a annual meeting. There is no evidence that the “more likely” status is meaningful, and there are no receipts in the article that can be verified.

  • Kintarian@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Science has discovered that saliva causes stomach cancer but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

    –George Carlin

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        Chemist here. Pretty sure it is the pesticides. Farmers aren’t living as long as their parent farmers. Pesticides are linked to many diseases in farmers . " …it was observed that 12 out of 30 pesticides used worldwide were associated with an increased risk of some cancers, in particular those of the prostate, lung, colon, and/or pancreas. In addition to the increased risk of cancer, medical studies have documented fertility and pregnancy impacts in agricultural workers among other significant health conditions."

      • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13 hours ago

        USA food regulation is crazy

        in most of the world a principle of prohibited untill proven safe is followed, in the land of free questionable chemicals in your food a principle of allowed untill proven unsafe is followed

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          Well… You can’t really prove something is safe. You can only say “we were unable to demonstrate any link to known harm”. PFAS was considered safe for decades. So was asbestos. Then the science got better, and we were able to show things we couldn’t before.

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      16 hours ago

      I set this scam up where I grind my grains into flour, make bread and sell it as whole grain bread.

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    17 hours ago

    Why “may”? If they have insufficient data to assert a statement, then is it just as useful to state that it “may not”? So, fruit and veggie consumption may not influence early onset lung cancer.

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      17 hours ago

      Because they have enough data to form a hypothesis that requires more research to confirm. Even if you leave the “may” out it’d be very vague because we don’t know what exactly causes the cancer. Pesticides on vegetables is just their best guess and even if that’s correct, which ones exactly? It might also be something else entirely that happens to correlate with a veggie heavy nutrition but has little to do with the vegetables themselves.

      Uncertainty isn’t a bad thing.

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      A lot of times, studies have results that aren’t specific or rigorous enough to be definitive, but they can still point the way to how a more conclusive study might be conducted. Just part of the scientific process.