War chemicals are not reviewed since these ones are intimate in our everyday lives and they're dangerous as all get out. (Science Daily: Exposure to chemicals dangerous to hormone function burdens Americans with hundreds of billions in disease costs)
The sixties started the Era of Plastics and now we're fifty+ years on. There has been increasing concern and validly about the dangers and the article gives technical elaboration of the consequences.
The article also offers suggestions on amelioration of the problem in your own homes.
Senior study investigator Teresa M. Attina, MD, PhD, also of NYU Langone, says there are "safe and simple" steps families can take to limit exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. These include not microwaving food in plastic containers or covered by plastic wrap, and washing plastic food containers by hand instead of putting them in the dishwasher. She says people can also avoid using plastic containers labeled on the bottom with the numbers 3, 6, or 7 inside the recycle symbol, in which chemicals such as phthalates are used. Switching to all natural or fragrance-free cosmetics is also an option.
The sixties started the Era of Plastics and now we're fifty+ years on. There has been increasing concern and validly about the dangers and the article gives technical elaboration of the consequences.
The article also offers suggestions on amelioration of the problem in your own homes.
Senior study investigator Teresa M. Attina, MD, PhD, also of NYU Langone, says there are "safe and simple" steps families can take to limit exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. These include not microwaving food in plastic containers or covered by plastic wrap, and washing plastic food containers by hand instead of putting them in the dishwasher. She says people can also avoid using plastic containers labeled on the bottom with the numbers 3, 6, or 7 inside the recycle symbol, in which chemicals such as phthalates are used. Switching to all natural or fragrance-free cosmetics is also an option.
- Science Daily
That summary is necessary to make it clear it's not my purpose to inflame hyperbole but rather quote the facts and the purpose isn't to imply hopelessness since the suggestions on your actions are possible positive responses.
I don't see the article flogging anyone with consequences but it may read as extreme and the situation is validly extreme. The reading may be alienating insofar as there often screams of 'crying wolf' but no others in a better situation to watch the wolves and no-one more qualified to tell us they see one.
There's no need for editorials on the matter when likely you have seen many in this context already. The purpose is only to report the science and it's important to bring it to you directly from the scientists rather than from some yay-hoo (i.e. Texas pronunciation) in the media.
The difference between a media yay-hoo and the Silas yay-hoo is I'm not bringing the consequences so you will need to review the article to see them directly from the scientists. That way there is zero chance I'm misinterpreting anything.
Note: Yevette was insistent this morning Texas invented that pronunciation. 'yah - hoo' is the northern pronunciation and means the same thing so we don't know which one was the chicken or the egg so no telling which came first. It's fine for Darwin to resolve that one.
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