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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A good way to tell what carcinogens to be afraid of is to look at how they're stored in chem labs. Benzene sits in a big bottle on the shelf. It's the stuff that's inside a bottle within a bottle and with the red tag locking out the fume hood you don't want in your sunscreen.
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My fondest hope is that the adhesive in California Proposition 65 stickers is one day shown to cause cancerpic.twitter.com/3YIPg0JzW9
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Chemists have been dealing with the equivalent of antivax people for decades, and it's innocent useful molecules that get caught in the crossfire. These people gave you Ziploc bags and teflon, be grateful! But of course the best is the chemicals-are-evil freaks who also smoke.
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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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Replying to @Pinboard
pesticide use can be greatly reduced by using farming methods other than "belligerent white man screams that he knows best"
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Hopefully the farmers of the world will see your tweet and learn
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