Eastman Chemical Company gets a double “false and deceptive” award. The first is for claiming that its Tritan plastic material is free of estrogenic activity. The second is for claiming that the dubious and discredited scientific study that supposedly backs their claims was done by a credible, independent lab. The False and Deceptive Statement Numerous […]
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The Amounts Are Too Small To Matter (A Deadly Misconception)
By Lewis Perdue on May 25, 2015 in Featured, Hormone/Endocrine Disruptor Basics, Myths That Can Kill You
See also: This is why you need to be concerned about tiny doses of environmental chemicals like BPA Hormones are tremendously powerful. And yet, they have huge effects on your body and health at incredibly tiny amounts — parts per billion and parts per trillion. For example, this article published by the U.S. National Institutes […]
Quick Briefing: These Links May Help You Understand The Issues Better
The following links may be useful in helping to understand the complicated issues raised in this article: The Amounts Are Too Small To Matter (A Deadly Misconception) The Dose Is The Poison (Not Always!) BPA’s No Sweat: Your Body Gets Rid Of It Quickly 84,000 Legal Chemicals. Fewer Than 200 Tested. Only 5 Ever Banned […]
Recycled Wastewater In The Wine Vineyard: Unknowns, Health Hazards, Brand Issues
NOTE TO READERS: In 2012 Stealth Syndromes Project co-founder Lewis Perdue wrote an article for Wine Industry Insight pointing out in some of the dangers lurking in the current practice, theory and science of using recycled wastewater for irrigation of crops and landscaping. That first article: Toxic Irrigation: Major Study Indicts Chemicals Found in Recycled Wastewater […]
Toxic Irrigation: Major Study Indicts Chemicals Found in Recycled Wastewater Used For Vineyards And Other Crops
NOTE TO READERS: In 2012 Stealth Syndromes Project co-founder Lewis Perdue wrote this article for Wine Industry Insight pointing out in some of the dangers lurking in the current practice, theory and science of using recycled wastewater for irrigation of crops and landscaping. This article raised Perdue’s concern resulted in the founding of Stealth Syndromes Project […]
GLP Part 2: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science
See also: GLP, Part 1, “Good Laboratory Practices:” Obsolete Federal Science, Jeopardizing Public Health, and the multi-part series: Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” The average non-scientist would have no problem recognizing any number of once-useful objects and practices that are now obsolete in a modern, first-world country. That list would certainly include […]
GLP, Part 1, “Good Laboratory Practices:” Obsolete Federal Science, Jeopardizing Public Health.
See also: GLP Part 2: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science, and the multi-part series: Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” Federal regulatory science is flawed in many aspects, but one of the primary reasons lies in the outdated and rudimentary rules embodied in “Good Laboratory Practices” (GLP). GLP was created in 1978 […]
Why Chemical Safety Advocates Need To Be Lab Rats For Their Products
SUMMARY: Those advocating the safety of chemicals used in nail salons should volunteer as laboratory subjects to be exposed to those chemicals in a controlled clinical trial to assess direct effects on humans. A New York Times article on the dangers of chemicals used in the nail salon business — Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers — […]
NIH Journal Says Your Frying Pan Is Trying To Kill You
Your frying pan is trying to kill you. And your carpet, paper cup and raincoat. This link from the National Institutes of Health publication EHP explains the problem: scientifically complete and with footnotes: Alternatives to PFASs: Perspectives on the Science Poly- and perfluoroalkyl acids (PFASs) are ubiquitous in our lives. These chemicals are used as […]
Did Paul Ehrlich Prime People For Climate Change Skepticism?
Paul Ehrlich made me a skeptic. Not about climate change, but skeptical of over-the-top science activists and their imminent doomsday predictions. Paul Ehrlich made me a skeptic of all true-believers. The article below was the start of that because it made me a true believer, something I later learned to be ashamed of. But, […]