http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-04-23-teflon-usat_x.htm Out of the frying pan, into a fire By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Fifty years ago, Americans wrapped their sandwiches in waxed paper, poured their milk from glass bottles, wore rubberized coats when it rained, drove cars made from steel and reheated dinner in an old pie tin in the oven. Today our sandwiches come in aluminum-plastic pockets, ready to be popped in the microwave. Pizza boxes and French fry containers keep grease off us with high-tech coatings. When it rains, we wear Gore-Tex, which keeps the water out but lets our skin breathe. Our cars are lighter, cheaper and more energy-efficient because they're made from a dizzying array of metals and plastics. At night, we pull dinner out of the refrigerator in plastic containers that can go straight from freezer to microwave without cracking or burning. But there may be a price for all that convenience. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency announced concerns about a widely used chemical called perfluorinated acid. Tests in rats have shown reduced fetal weight of pups, delays in maturation and kidney problems — and 92% of Americans tested had trace amounts of it in their blood. That's because so-called PFOA or its byproducts are used in the manufacturing process for Teflon and Gore-Tex and can be released as the original Scotchguard and Stainmaster break down. PFOA also has other industrial uses. This month a paper in the journal Current Biology reported that a commonly used plastic ingredient called bisphenol A caused abnormal pregnancies in mice and might cause reproductive problems in people. Last year a Swedish study found that a flame r****dant used in TV sets, computer circuit boards and casings, foams and fabric called polybrominated diphenyl ether, or PBDE, is rapidly accumulating in human breast milk. The chemical is thought to cause thyroid cancer and possibly neurodevelopmental problems in test animals. . . .
Hasn't it already been agreed that pretty much everything gives you cancer or some kind of debilitating disease after prolonged exposure?
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The weirdest thing about that is as I read that I truly felt like I was dying. It was almost heard to read as a result of the racing thoughts in my brain. Was this all a part of some sort of wild psychological terrorism on us to scare us all to the point of mass killings and suicides? Then I was thinking that if I saw my son's dead corpse before me I would blow my head off before. I would let that same thing kill me. Then I thought longer and maybe I am really weak and I want to walk in the other room and blow out my brains now simply b/c I could never stand the thought of the feelings I would have that day I saw my son's dead corpse before me. I would blow my head off before I would let that same thing kill me.
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Pretty interesting. Right before the SARS started getting really big, we were learning about how poeple think that there will be some sort of incurable epidemic that would wipe us out. It was talking about how most diseases and viruses and stuff can mutate to make them selves immune to medicines. Eventually some scientists think that either these infections/dieseases/whatever will join together or one small one that many people get will have mutated so many times that there is no possible cure for it. It was a very interesting segment nontheless.
