The hippies were right. Pesticides are a bad trip. :skull_and_crossbones: [image] Sick legacy — how DDT exposure from the past can affect many generations to... Study indicates that the granddaughters of women who were exposed are more likely to menstruate early, become obese and develo…

We now live in such a toxic soup of chemicals that it’d be completely impossible to figure out which ones are harming us, and in what ways, so nobody even really makes the effort anymore. Novel pesticides and herbicides are basically just assumed safe. The risk of poorly-understood harms to the ecos…

[image] finley: We now live in such a toxic soup of chemicals that it’d be completely impossible to figure out which ones are harming us, and in what ways, so nobody even really makes the effort anymore. Novel pesticides and herbicides are basically just assumed safe. The risk of poorly-understo…

[image] Explant: But scientists are for hire now and pepple tend to confuse science with sonething scientists say assuming they are one in the same. There are now far too many scientists today who have more talent for PR than for science, and a very low level of scientific literacy in the pop…

[image] finley: Virtually nobody - including a lot of career scientists - don’t really understand the scientific method, or have the temperament for it. A career which basically revolves around proving yourself wrong (or being proved wrong by others) is not something the average ego can cope wit…

well, don’t give them cell phones and video games for a start. and then make them play outside, in the creeks and forests. then you’ll have a much better crop of inquisitive, active, grounded teenagers. Wait, that sounds Exactly like what hippie parents are already doing…

[image] urodacus: well, don’t give them cell phones and video games for a start. and then make them play outside, in the creeks and forests. then you’ll have a much better crop of inquisitive, active, grounded teenagers. Wait, that sounds Exactly like what hippie parents are already doing… …

I think you guys are being far too pessimistic as always. A bunch of other pesticides have been banned and restricted in the EU and worldwide . The ability to detect these chemicals had also increased dramatically. So much so that extremely low levels of few parts per billion are banned from our fo…

I’m sure i read that in a Larry Niven novel somewhere

If only we could live in such a perfect haven as the EU hehe. Even there, food problems still happen. Seems many ecoli deaths over the years are in the west. Regardless. i have hired numerous full grown adults that need me to hold their hands through the simplest of tasks this is getting far mo…

[image] Brianjones: I think you guys are being far too pessimistic as always. A bunch of other pesticides have been banned and restricted in the EU and worldwide . The ability to detect these chemicals had also increased dramatically. So much so that extremely low levels of few parts per billio…

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