New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes 266
fprintf writes "There have been a number of studies over the years, some of which have been debunked, linking plastics with human disease. Now British researchers have released a study again linking common plastics used in food/liquid storage with human disease."
Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score:5, Funny)
Good food, bad food (Score:5, Funny)
Every week there will be a new study that reveals some common chemical in our daily lives, will be harmful or good for your health.
Often it will be both harmful and good on consecutive weeks.
Soon I'll be releasing my own study that shows excessive worrying about common foods causes diabetes, cancer and spontaneous combustion.
Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score:2, Funny)
Actually the study was based on the number of rubber bullets fired at a persons chest. As the number increased, the probability of a heart attack also increased. The second part was based on the study of plastic heart valve installations. It was observed that the people who had these valves in their hearts were also likely to suffer from heart disease.
Re:BPA can cause more than that. (Score:4, Funny)
Keep using BPA products. And people wonder why girls are hitting puberty so much earlier now.
Internet? (reference: any adult web site)
attention deficit disorder
Internet? (reference: online games)
and neurological systems
Internet? (reference: goatse)
Re:Good food, bad food (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, you're on to something:
constant worrying about common foods = stress
and?
stress = heart health problems
Cancer is more destructive in those persons who are less able to defend against it.
Stress = weakened immune response
Spontaneous combustion? you're on your own with that one
Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score:5, Funny)
"Exactly right. "Correlation is not causation" has become more like a reflexive meme around here rather than a thoughtful addition to the conversation."
I don't see how you can say that, just because a lot of commenters tend to reflexively reply with that meme to articles about scientific studies linking one thing to another. There can be many reasons for this. Correlation does not necessarily equal cau... uh ... oh, I see your point.
This just in! (Score:3, Funny)
It has recently been revealed that a common thread has been found among all human ailments and syndromes.
Everyone that has been afflicted with a disease or syndrome has consumed large amounts of DHMO!
Plastics, m'boy! (Score:5, Funny)
Don't malign plastic, you dirty hippies. They saved my life in WWII! Why, when I was a lad, we would have KILLED to have plastic food storage. You know what I hear when you say plastics are dangerous? "blah blah blah I hate America blah blah I hate progress blah blah blah." Real Americans can eat plastic like it was apple pie and not get sick.
The same goes double for global warming & the ozone layer. In fact, let's just stop funding research into things that may be bad for us. Only sissies care. All you are doing with your sissy studies is holding back progress and making people worry over nothing.
Admit it: you want us all to go back to living in caves. You hate the modern world and everything in it and you want to destroy it with your evil 'studies.' Elitist intellectual claptrap.
America stands for progress. Except we're not progressive, the damn hippies stole that word and turned it into something dirty. Either you love progress and you know that everything new is better, or you hate America and want everyone to live in caves.
If you hate plastics, you hate the whole human race!
Re:Relative risk (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Bioshock reference (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score:3, Funny)
n.
A modern performer who specializes in comic mimicry.
1. The art of portraying characters and acting out situations or a narrative by gestures and body movement without the use of words; pantomime.
2. A performance of pantomime.
3. An actor or actress skilled in pantomime.
4. Twenty (20) points if you run one over with a car
Do Not Eat! (Score:3, Funny)
And yet I'm still destroying you (Score:2, Funny)
"But you did pay attention, didn't you?"
No, and you're changing your argument again because your stupid attempt to act like "listen" didn't apply, when I just proved to you that it did.
"You read my post, you replied, that means you paid attention."
No, I have no fucking idea what you said. I paid attention to nothing, I simply reacted reflexively. You fail again.
"The fun thing is, I'm forcing you to keep responding, wasting more of your time and attention, getting your blood pressure up, making you rant and rave. I love it, please keep going."
FUnny, I seem to recall you tracking me down a day later to defend your stupid joke. I am repeatedly telling you I don't care about what you say, yet you think you're "getting my blood pressure up" when the reality is, my co workers and I are marvelling at how stupid you are, and how ridiculous your attempts to get over on me are.
So far, you've changed your attack every time you reply, and yet you think you've done something other than prove exactly what I said about you.
And I've seen you use that stupid "I'm getting you to respond" attack befor, it's tired just like your jokes.
"You've only shut me up in your own, delusional world."
Then reality is my world.
You cannot deny that no matter what you've done, you've gotten your moronic arguments crushed at every opportunity, and now you're acting as though your own compulsion to reply is somehow a win for you.
Of course, if you weren't so stupid, you'd realize you replied to me, so by your own argument you lose.
Again.
Now, you cannot help yourself, you are so mentally ill, so totally intellectually flawed, that you must, must reply to defend yourself, no matter how idiotic your replies are, and no matter how stupid and hypocritical you appear.
Please deny it so I can post your quotes and prove it.
And you get shut the fuck up. Again.