Comments by "Abella Seksa" (@abellaseksa8513) on "Motherboard"
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mack man Read this: Our Excessive Fear of Mercury. Where It Comes From. What It (The Fear) Does to Us: http://bigthink.com/risk-reason-and-reality/our-excessive-fear-of-mercury-where-it-comes-from-what-it-the-fear-does-to-us
"This is no love letter to mercury. It does have human health effects, and impacts on wildlife. It is a neurotoxin, and worthy of concern. BUT the qualifications about just how neurotoxic it is, and to which subpopulations, are rarely included in news stories that simply declare mercury to be dangerous, a black-and-white description that serves the public poorly. It serves environmental scientists well, however, since these are people dedicated, honorably, to raising concern about such threats. They describe the risk to journalists in dramatic and simplified ways, often leaving out these mitigating distinctions, and the journalists repeat those simplistic, dramatic, attention-getting descriptions, and society ends up with less than the whole picture — creating fears that exceed the actual threat"
According to the study, which played a key role in establishing the regulation of mercury (and helped inform the EPA’s cost-benefit analysis), less than one IQ point per kid, so subtle that it couldn’t be detected in any one child. As the authors noted, “Clinical examination and neurophysiological testing did not reveal any clear-cut mercury-related abnormalities
In other words the mercury situation is being abused to mislead the masses and you are helping in that misleading process.
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