Don’t hold your breath, though. The Chicken Littles have a lucrative gig there.
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There was a great book published some years ago called, The Dose Makes the Poison. i.e., It’s not just the toxicity of something – it’s also the quantity. Back in the 1970’s, Canadian scientists found that coffee gave rats cancer. But if you looked at the equivalent dosage, you’d have to consume a cup of coffee every 5 seconds for 50 years to get the same exposure.
The best example I’ve seen involves aspirin. If you take an aspirin every day for 10 years, you will consume 3,652 aspirin. Unless you happen to be allergic, you won’t have a negative impact. However, if you sit down and try to eat 3,652 aspirins at one time, you will become very dead.
Yeah, I know, the whole concept involve logic and that’s in very short supply on the Left Coast.
April 7th, 2018 at 00:58
There was a great book published some years ago called, The Dose Makes the Poison. i.e., It’s not just the toxicity of something – it’s also the quantity. Back in the 1970’s, Canadian scientists found that coffee gave rats cancer. But if you looked at the equivalent dosage, you’d have to consume a cup of coffee every 5 seconds for 50 years to get the same exposure.
The best example I’ve seen involves aspirin. If you take an aspirin every day for 10 years, you will consume 3,652 aspirin. Unless you happen to be allergic, you won’t have a negative impact. However, if you sit down and try to eat 3,652 aspirins at one time, you will become very dead.
Yeah, I know, the whole concept involve logic and that’s in very short supply on the Left Coast.