What does that have to do with fear? How on earth can you say its fine for me to go into my basement and mix up any chemical compound I want and saturate you with it? How on earth can you say I should have the right to adulterate the environment and subject you to any chemical I mix up in my basement until you prove that its harming you?
The truly frightening part isn't that people like you, completely devoid of logic and common sense, exist. Its that people like you are many, and that your ignorance is exploited by those who run the show and profit off of this poisoning.
Nothing measured in parts per trillion is "saturating the environment," and everything including plain water has "unknown effects" in one context or another. The precautionary principle is epistemologically bankrupt.
But then this sort of thread always generates more hype than light, I suppose.
"These experiments yield bodily concentrations of BPA in ranges of parts per million, but some recent studies have even found that when BPA interacts with hormone receptors on cell membranes, concentrations of one part per trillion can stimulate physiological responses."
Just an example, tho.
Also, to borrow from history, cigarettes once upon a time were not considered harmful mainly because there was just no data suggesting that they were. Smokers regularly "saturated" their environments with smoke. Smoking is banned in a lot of placed now that we have data. Does this help people who got lung cancer or other diseases, who might not even smoked themselves but only second hand? It does not.
The compounds in question here are known to bioaccumulate, meaning once you got them in your system, they will (mostly) stay in and not break down. If I came to your house every day, placing a rock in it and telling you that you cannot remove it, you'd probably object and also don't think that me saying "But it's only one(1) rock and does not matter!" especially after I added new rocks for years.
The default should be to ban use of any compound until you can reasonably prove it is safe according to the current state of science, not allowing everything until somebody proves it is unsafe.
Now, if people want to ingest potentially harmful stuff by choice (e.g. smoking)... that's another matter and they should be free to do so. But they should not be free to make other people ingest potentially harmful stuff against their consent or knowledge (e.g. pollution)
The default should be to ban use of any compound until you can reasonably prove it is safe according to the current state of science, not allowing everything until somebody proves it is unsafe.
This guarantees an exponential slowdown in human progress, while not demonstrably leaving us any safer.
Thank you for being an example of the ignorant mentality that allows poisons to flood our environment.
Who the hell are you to say that the adulterant you introduce into my bloodstream is safe because its such a low level? Should you have to wait until I stick my thumb in your eye to attain proof that its harmful before I'm prevented from doing so?
The truly frightening part isn't that people like you, completely devoid of logic and common sense, exist. Its that people like you are many, and that your ignorance is exploited by those who run the show and profit off of this poisoning.