Re:New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
by briandear on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @02:18PM
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How can you prove a negative? Can you prove that you don't beat your wife?
The MSDS process does provide a rather comprehensive treatment of chemicals. It would be ridiculous to prove that every single chemical doesn't cause a rare pancreatic cancer. How do you test that? Human trials? It isn't the money'd interests, it just practical reality. These chemicals ARE tested to some extent.. It would be ridiculous for a company to have to prove their product doesn't cause any of 10,000 types of cancer, diseases or any other ailment.
Then you have pseudo-science forces working against "industry" regardless of facts. DDT is a great example of what happens when we let people like Rachel Carson have the unrestricted ability to effectively libel a product based on discredited science -- leading to malaria almost being eliminated to malaria killing millions of people each year.
Maybe activists ought to have their claims subject to regulation.. They are guilty of scientific fraud. Vaccines, DDT, GMOs, fracking.. They are opposed to those things not based on actual, credible and repeatable science but because pop culture "experts" want to sell books or movie tickets and organizations have a financial interest in promoting their "non-profits."
The MSDS process does provide a rather comprehensive treatment of chemicals. It would be ridiculous to prove that every single chemical doesn't cause a rare pancreatic cancer. How do you test that? Human trials? It isn't the money'd interests, it just practical reality. These chemicals ARE tested to some extent.. It would be ridiculous for a company to have to prove their product doesn't cause any of 10,000 types of cancer, diseases or any other ailment.
Then you have pseudo-science forces working against "industry" regardless of facts. DDT is a great example of what happens when we let people like Rachel Carson have the unrestricted ability to effectively libel a product based on discredited science -- leading to malaria almost being eliminated to malaria killing millions of people each year.
Maybe activists ought to have their claims subject to regulation.. They are guilty of scientific fraud. Vaccines, DDT, GMOs, fracking.. They are opposed to those things not based on actual, credible and repeatable science but because pop culture "experts" want to sell books or movie tickets and organizations have a financial interest in promoting their "non-profits."