When did 'chemical' become a bad word?
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moremuffins
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I love me some dihydrogen monoxide after a workout, and I just couldn't live without diatomic oxygen!
You wouldn't exist without chemicals and chemical reactions, so stop the hating!
You wouldn't exist without chemicals and chemical reactions, so stop the hating!
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Better living through chemistry!0
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I think it's the man-made chemicals that get people in an uproar0
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I dunno - there's a thread still going in which someone was convinced that sodium bicarbonate was toxic...0
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moremuffins wrote: »I love me some dihydrogen monoxide after a workout, and I just couldn't live without diatomic oxygen!
You wouldn't exist without chemicals and chemical reactions, so stop the hating!
when some idiots applied a lack of science to their undereducated understandings of the world and played chicken little.
Basically, they're a mild variation on the flat earthers who claim evolution is a theory, without understanding what a scientific theory is.0 -
http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2013/05/29/the-presence-of-a-chemical-is-not-the-same-as-presence-of-risk
"The problem may not be the “potentially” toxic chemicals that are in products we buy and use every day as much as the zeal with which some individuals and activist groups attempt to convert an association into causation to fit an ideological agenda. If we were to remove all “potentially” toxic products from the shelves of the stores we shop at—there would be nothing left for us to buy."0 -
It's not? Folks just get goofy over imprecise labeling.0
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I blame the anti-science elected officials...0
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I hear a lot of people who say stuff like "On no, all chemicals are bad, dont eat anything with chemicals" and hate when I tell them its impossible.0
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Ignorance is bliss.0
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Chemical became a bad word around the same time that My Chemical Romance started to get popular. That is fact.0
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As far as diet goes, I think it became a bad word when man starting f'n with the food supply by adding chemicals that weren't naturally in the food.0
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »As far as diet goes, I think it became a bad word when man starting f'n with the food supply by adding chemicals that weren't naturally in the food.
but then we wouldn't have oreos and reeses- so I'm okay with it.0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »As far as diet goes, I think it became a bad word when man starting f'n with the food supply by adding chemicals that weren't naturally in the food.
You mean like when Native Americans would add salt to meat when drying it to better preserve it? (just an example)0 -
When Monsanto develops a plant that can absorb herbicides without being harmed. That is really really bad.0
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Them too... but I was also lumping in elected state school board people in there too... as they are the ones that have a say in what goes into schools.0 -
Them too... but I was also lumping in elected state school board people in there too... as they are the ones that have a say in what goes into schools.
truth.0 -
sheldonz42 wrote: »Need2Exerc1se wrote: »As far as diet goes, I think it became a bad word when man starting f'n with the food supply by adding chemicals that weren't naturally in the food.
You mean like when Native Americans would add salt to meat when drying it to better preserve it? (just an example)
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sheldonz42 wrote: »Need2Exerc1se wrote: »As far as diet goes, I think it became a bad word when man starting f'n with the food supply by adding chemicals that weren't naturally in the food.
You mean like when Native Americans would add salt to meat when drying it to better preserve it? (just an example)
No, not really. I wouldn't consider personal preservation of food as f'n with the food supply. I was referring more to mass production.0 -
sheldonz42 wrote: »Need2Exerc1se wrote: »As far as diet goes, I think it became a bad word when man starting f'n with the food supply by adding chemicals that weren't naturally in the food.
You mean like when Native Americans would add salt to meat when drying it to better preserve it? (just an example)
I love this point. People don't seem to realize how much chemicals and genetic engineering have helped us to live longer and to sustain our increasing population. Basically, we have it so good that we have to make things up to worry about.0
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