How tainted drugs “froze” young people but kickstarted Parkinson’s research

Re:How tainted drugs “froze” young people but kickstarted Pa... by droopyEyelids on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:00AM (#11730218)

This gets really scary when you realize it's not just chemicals that we recognize as drugs that can have these effects- it's every chemical developed by every industry in every product we're exposed to in the world.

In a way it's nice and calming to think, "oh, if I don't abuse illegal drugs I'm not affected by this. Most non drug chemicals don't cross the blood brain barrier anyway"

But then you might remember the NYT's attempt to do an expose on drinking water. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17water.html

Chemicals that the EPA tests for stop being produced, industrial chemist tinker with them in the exact same way these drug chemists do, and then new chemicals are released into our environment that we don't have data on or testing to mitigate.

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Re:How tainted drugs “froze” young people but kickstarted Pa... by Scarblac on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:34AM (#11730499)

> every chemical developed by every industry in every product we're exposed to in the world

Fyi, writing it like this makes you sound like the kind of person who thinks "chemicals" are "not natural" but produced by industry and therefore dangerous and evil. Even though literally everything is made up of chemicals.

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