More than that, he is saying there is a double standard for synthetic substances.We treat them with much more fear and caution than the natural chemicals we are exposed to all the time. Many common vegetables would not pass FDA requirements if they were "invented" today. They contain thousands of chemicals. Many of which have never been tested, and some of which are even known to be toxic. Like solanine.
The issue I am having with the comment is that this is a specific study on a specific set of chemicals that produced a specific outcome. We're not discussing chemicals in general, and yet you are making it seem like the results of this study should be ignored because chemicals can be good and bad.
To draw a comparison, it's like someone posted an article about high concentrations of asbestos leading to health problems, implying that maybe we shouldn't use it as an insulator. It's not implying that we shouldn't use insulators. It's simply implying that maybe we should reconsider the use of this specific insulator. Then you come in commenting nonsense about how insulators are a good thing, and that we need insulators. The issue is that nobody is arguing against you. You're right that insulators are a good thing and necessary. The problem is that takes away from the main point of the article, that we should reconsider the use of this specific item.
The grandparent comment I replied to is literally about fearing man made chemicals in general.
>To draw a comparison, it's like someone posted an article about high concentrations of asbestos leading to health problems, implying that maybe we shouldn't use it as an insulator. It's not implying that we shouldn't use insulators. It's simply implying that maybe we should reconsider the use of this specific insulator. Then you come in commenting nonsense about how insulators are a good thing, and that we need insulators.
It would be more like if someone posted an article about asbestos, and the top comment was about how they strongly distrust all man made materials.
Is your point merely that everything is Schrödinger's chemical unless we study it? That is a stupid stance. This article is clearly associating a = b+c, ie: this chemical is causing bad things for your intestinal microbes which leads to diabetes, etc.
I feel like you are maliciously attempting to downplay the severeness of the studies' results by introducing the Schrödinger argument. I am calling the quote by ET Jaynes to be pointless and equating his example of radioactivity to the aforementioned water example.
With this equation in mind, are you trying to say that a small dose of our insecticides is good for us, but, we are abusing it? Do you have any grounds for this? Even E.T Jaynes implies there is no proof for this statement because of the lack of studies. Why would you downplay this?