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Mama, while we should all certainly be aware of, and concerned with, health matters, it's important, too, when spreading information that we be aware of any vested interests of those making the reports.
For example, in your second post the report starts by saying:
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will fine Teflon maker DuPont $16.5 million for two decades' worth of covering up studies that showed it was polluting drinking water and newborn babies with an indestructible chemical."
Very inflamatory. And very scary, if true. However, this is not quite what was said in your first post.
Much of the health and environmental reporting in this country is of that nature, unfortunately. Groups with an ax to grind twist and spin what is sometimes very little information.
Another example: Recent studies have repudiated the so-called links between aluminum and althzeimers. But even if they hadn't, the original (possibly flawed) study revealed that people with althzeimers had aluminum build-ups in certain portions of the brain.
The researchers, themselves, concluded that the causal relationship was unclear: Did aluminum build up and cause the disease? Or did having the disease cause aluminum to build up?
Obviously these are very different things. And yet, many groups, organizations, and individuals are still reporting that using aluminum cookware has been linked to althzeimers disease. Such as the article you quote, which states, "Excess aluminum has been associated with conditions such as Alzheimer?s."
For what it's worth, on the aluminum issue, nobody has been able to replicate the findings of the original study, and most researchers have concluded that the aluminum levels found in the original study were an artifact introduced by sloppy lab work.
Somehow or another, the mass media and the anti-aluminum lobby has never caught up with more recent findings.
For example, in your second post the report starts by saying:
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will fine Teflon maker DuPont $16.5 million for two decades' worth of covering up studies that showed it was polluting drinking water and newborn babies with an indestructible chemical."
Very inflamatory. And very scary, if true. However, this is not quite what was said in your first post.
Much of the health and environmental reporting in this country is of that nature, unfortunately. Groups with an ax to grind twist and spin what is sometimes very little information.
Another example: Recent studies have repudiated the so-called links between aluminum and althzeimers. But even if they hadn't, the original (possibly flawed) study revealed that people with althzeimers had aluminum build-ups in certain portions of the brain.
The researchers, themselves, concluded that the causal relationship was unclear: Did aluminum build up and cause the disease? Or did having the disease cause aluminum to build up?
Obviously these are very different things. And yet, many groups, organizations, and individuals are still reporting that using aluminum cookware has been linked to althzeimers disease. Such as the article you quote, which states, "Excess aluminum has been associated with conditions such as Alzheimer?s."
For what it's worth, on the aluminum issue, nobody has been able to replicate the findings of the original study, and most researchers have concluded that the aluminum levels found in the original study were an artifact introduced by sloppy lab work.
Somehow or another, the mass media and the anti-aluminum lobby has never caught up with more recent findings.
