Today the thing I'm choosing to be overspecifically annoyed by is people who are obsessing about benzene in sunscreen but don't wear hazmat gear when fueling their car (gas is full of it). Benzene is pretty benign. Choose a career where you don't breathe it daily and chill out.
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I knew a guy who wouldn't light his American Spirits or joints off of a candle because "dude, paraffin"
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Also if you're going to suncreen panic, choose one type of panic: this highly volatile chemical is going to form a toxic cloud around you'll be breathing in, or it's going to linger on your body for hours and possibly days. You can't really have both because SCIENCE
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People like you are the reason we have the book of Deuteronomy and organic-only checkout belts at Whole Foods.
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FYI, here's the Material Safety Data Sheet for ethanol. It's a neurotoxic mutagen and teratogen that causes tumors in mice. Could it be in your child's sunscreen?pic.twitter.com/JnLyOjOk3b
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Human brains are wired to hold absolutist beliefs about purity/uncleanliness and these react in socially disastrous ways with a modern society that needs things like nuclear power, vaccines, and effective pesticides.
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Most of what we learned about occupational exposure over 50 years: 1. Feed anything to a rat in big enough quantities and it gets cancer. 2. Don't work in unventilated spaces with stuff
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Gardening is an excellent way to convince yourself that we would all starve without pesticides.
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I see a lot of people on this site not taking advantage of useful anxiety lifehacks. For example, if you're up every night panicked about runaway global warming, there's no need to worry about what's in your kids' food.
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One of my favorite all-time tweets was about the friends who used to get and do blue coke in dive bars but are vaccine hesitant.
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Old-style Teflon did turn out to be pretty evil though
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