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- ftc08, on 06/18/2009, -0/+19I'm waiting for High-Fructose Corn Syrup to make a list like this.
- Lederhosed, on 06/18/2009, -2/+17Too bad the EPA's toxics program is so far behind the ball in evaluating potential new toxins that the Government Accountability office added it to its list of troubled government programs this year. Food for thought next time you decide to trust anything you buy.
- jdames1980, on 06/18/2009, -0/+13A chemical used in chemotherapy treatments causes cancer. Well isn't that great!
- cleveruser, on 06/18/2009, -0/+12Just when I thought I was safe...
- eleven, on 06/18/2009, -0/+11Wood Dust?
- anexanhume, on 06/18/2009, -1/+9Carcinogens
1. Amsacrine, a chemotherapy drug
FAIL - EddiePotato, on 06/18/2009, -1/+9Probably something about the microfibers getting lodged in lung tissue and causing microscopic scaring which over many decades may lead to cancer in approximately .001% of those exposed.
- MWeather, on 06/18/2009, -0/+7You didn't learn about that in shop class? I hope you wore a mask.
- Maxjan, on 06/18/2009, -0/+7adding wood touching to the "do not" list will piss a lot of Diggers off.
- echoofsilence, on 06/18/2009, -0/+7There's a group of lobbyists getting paid by taxpayers whose sole job is to prevent this. Not gonna happen.
- Chairboy, on 06/18/2009, -1/+8When you live in California, you see warning signs all over the place. Buildings, lots of car parks, etc, warning about the carcinogenic properties of some item that's located there.
It seems like it would be less expensive to simple place a sign at the border crossings:
"WARNING - The State of California contains substances known to cause cancer or reproductive harm."
I assume that implicit inherited properties are how warning signs work. - socialpyramid, on 06/18/2009, -3/+9What would environmental and public health advocates really have to gain from just "scaring people?" If they wanted to go into that line of work they could make a ton more money by trying to convince people to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, buy weightloss drugs, go to war, or any other vastly more profitable things. I've certainly never met an environmental activist, policy maker or scientist who was in it for the money. When you can make many times as much doing something else, why would you do that? Could it be because people actually think it makes sense to take precaution when it comes to our health and the environment?
- WordsnCollision, on 06/18/2009, -0/+6Not just new, New And Improved!
- nebbo, on 06/18/2009, -1/+731. Dihydrogen Monoxide
is also called "hydroxyl acid", the substance is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the "greenhouse effect".
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients. - TimtheTaxMan, on 06/18/2009, -0/+5O crap! You mean that huffing gas is bad…
There goes my weekends. - banshee90, on 06/18/2009, -0/+5Thats why I use Hydrogen Hydroxide it is way safer.
I think it has one less neutron or something - SkippyDoorknob, on 06/18/2009, -0/+5Herbicides and insecticides are toxic? Who would have suspected?
- lekahe, on 06/18/2009, -3/+7Dugg, even though I think "may cause" is not enough. How do you decide when something is more useful than harmful? Everything may cause cancer!
- GaltShrugged, on 06/18/2009, -1/+5Dihydrogen monoxide was used by the Soviet Union in Chemical weapons.
- 7m7uf, on 06/18/2009, -0/+4Why did the release the list all at once?! Releasing them one at a time would create new jobs in Dramatic Music and Scary Photoshop Artists in those local news stations for years!!
"Is wood dust killing you?! *Cue Music* Find out at 10'" - diggdat, on 06/18/2009, -0/+4Plenty of people that went in shortly after, including many fireman, died very quickly with horrible radiation burns.
- Andrewbot, on 06/18/2009, -1/+5Apparently everything gives us Californians cancer. From the food we eat, the water we drink, the clothes we wear, everything!
- digitalruin, on 06/18/2009, -0/+3Seriously... wood dust? I shouldn't be surprised since now milk causes cancer too:
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA400175
Remember, no breathing, eating, drinking... and wood touching of course. - Genthree, on 06/18/2009, -0/+3What he's saying is that almost all of these chemicals are extremely common and have been known to be toxic for years. People have been sniffing paint thinner (toluene) to get high for a very long time. The MSDS' for these chemicals all state their dangers. While these people may not necessarily be in it for the money, many thrive off of attention and a conspiracy theory complex that allows them feel like they know something no one else does. Also, without new public health "crises" they would be out of a job, low paying though it may be.
- askantik, on 06/18/2009, -1/+4Who'd have thought that weed killer and gasoline could be bad for your health? Heh...
BTW, a lot of this ***** is in plastic and stuff we use every day. When you use oil to make cups that are designed to only be used once and then thrown away (and then take 500 years to biodegrade), this is the kind of ***** you get.
In other news: I like how wood dust is on there... Pretty much anything in really fine powder form that you inhale can give you cancer. But the biggest fail is this one:
Carcinogens
1. Amsacrine, a chemotherapy drug - d3dm, on 06/18/2009, -0/+3Read this:
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/wooddust ... - nbx909, on 06/18/2009, -2/+5The running joke in my research lab is that as long as we don't go to California we'll be safe... next American Chemical Society meeting is in San Francisco... we're all screwed.
- anexanhume, on 06/18/2009, -0/+3The term carcinogen refers to any substance, radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the increase of its propagation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogen - EddiePotato, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3That one was slipped in there by the timber industry. One more reason to get rid of all those nasty trees.
- sonnybobiche, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2I saw a documentary once about the soviet physicists who went INTO the reactor at Chernobyl after it blew because they needed to figure out where the fuel went. These guys were walking around inside the reactor wearing those paper facemasks and a fabric one-piece that was sealed to their gloves and boots with... duct tape.
Everyone was fine until several years later, when many died of heart attacks. Not cancer. Stress-induced heart attacks.
The human body's tolerance to nasty stuff is much, much higher than you think. - EddiePotato, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2But it's just a side effect.
- camaroz06, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2Wood dust is carcinogenic? I am pretty sure there is some underlying treatment chemical or something but not wood dust?
- uRmyHartBstopR, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2We have a huge population so... there are bound to be a lot of people that lack common sense. So the signs are there for them =]. Like the Laker's game, I didn't watch the game but I know they won because I heard gun shots (too many people that lack common sense).
- EddiePotato, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2I'll take your word for it.
- algaeturd, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2Can we just agree that everything will kill you or harm you and be done with it?
- cyrix, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2Not while I was lacquering stuff. Our shop teacher was an idiot and never showed us the vent fan switch when we were making coat hangers. I remember one day half stumbling out of that room in shop class giddy as hell. I got a two week suspension because of that for "abusing" a substance. I honestly had never used lacquer before that point. I knew it smelt ***** up, but didn't realize what it would do. Ah, I miss 7th grade.
- EddiePotato, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2Mostly for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midlan ...
- pirategonzo, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3After reading that list I don't have to worry about having kids ever.
- BikeRidinMan, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3Didn't George Carlin once say, "Swallowing saliva causes cancer"? Of course, only in small amounts over a long period of time.
- dwalker, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2Don' they mean MDF?
- kd1s, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2We males are definitely on the losing side with 12 reproductive toxicants. Then of course it was a no brainer to see that the cancer and HIV drugs cause cancer. Chemotherapy is still the shotgun approach killing both good and bad cells.
- banshee90, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2Knock on wood.
- KungFooJesus, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Let me know when my penis becomes a carcinogen.
- calicheese23, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Cancer is a growing disease. A good amount of diggers will end up getting it in their lifetimes. Go ahead and ignore the information. Make ignorant comments that "everything causes cancer". It does not. Notice many of these chemicals are man made. Are you all really that confident in scientists and businesses to assume that the chemicals we drink, eat and wear do not cause cancer?
A lot of people work at chemical plants and use pesticides while farming. So you using a pesticide to kill the bugs on your tomato plant will probably not do anything to your health, People that don't sit and the computer and digg actually get exposed to these chemicals daily by the gallon. - MWeather, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1No, they mean any wood dust.
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/toc11.html - MWeather, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1"There's a substantial amount of data that says that high level radioactive waste does cause cancer. Is there similar data for the items on this list?"
Amsacrine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8812222
Bleomycins:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6200809
Chlorophenoxy herbicides:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcg ...
Marine Diesel Fuel:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12748719
Progestins:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleUR ...
Styrene:
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/eleventh/profiles ...
Toxins derived from Fusarium moniliforme (Fusarium verticillioides):
http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=d ...
Vinyl Acetate:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15090683
Wood dust:
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/eleventh/profiles ...
Zalcitabine (ddC):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8840982
Zidovudine (AZT):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15313587
That's just the carcinogens. You can look up the rest. - Bersy, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Amsacrine, a chemotherapy drug
Bleomycins, antibiotics used in chemotherapy treatments
2, actually. - TINZUSA, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1When I die from these toxins, I'm suing!
- RastaD, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Where do you buy gasoline without ANY additives? I assume you are talking about aftermarket additives? Any gasoline you buy at the pump is going to contain additives to control octane and the like. Most contain detergents and various other additives as well. Gasoline is really a solution of many different chemicals all mixed together, rather than a pure substance like ethanol. There are lots of really smart people designing your gasoline so you can keep barking your tires in third gear... and most of them have no intention of scamming you.
- ebcreasoner, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1... to jump in the chemical laden water.
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