Halogenated flame retardants. Baaaaaad, baaad stuffs, and plenty of it in electronics, and plastic casings around electronics. Woe our testicles, my geeky friends!
teflon
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PenguinJim
Newcomer
Am I the first to mention Teflon Rounds? 
Those things saved my ass so many times! Best against robots and cyborgs - and of course, against cameras, if you had no lower guns! P-p-pathetic human... r-r-unning around my corridors with standard rounds!
Those things saved my ass so many times! Best against robots and cyborgs - and of course, against cameras, if you had no lower guns!
P-p-pathetic human... r-r-unning around my corridors with standard rounds! Look, everything you eat contains carcinogenic stuff. Potatoes, beef, chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, oranges, onions, bananas, you name it. It's all carcinogenic. IIRC, carrots are the only (or at least one of the very few) kinds of food that does not contain any known carcinogenic substances. I stopped worrying about these scare reports a long time ago.
Ty said:
arjan de lumens
Veteran
Wasn't beta-carotene (which gives carrots their characteristic color) found to be carcinogenic a few years ago?Humus said:
Saying that a substance is found in ALL humans doesn't say anything about whether it is actually present in large enough amounts to actually do damage. People who are paranoid about cancer risks may be interested in knowing that virtually all humans also contain measurable amounts of Potassium-40 and Uranium-238 (two well-known radioactive substances of natural origin; Potassium is a necessary mineral and Uranium is water-soluble enough to appear pretty much everywhere). As for the PFOA substance itself, the question of what health effects it can actually have is basically open - there just has been done very little studies on how harmful this chemical actually is.
rwolf said:Fact is we are all going to die. You may live longer by not eating on teflon pans, but all the time you gain will be spent scrubbing pots and pans in the sink.
Thats why I got married. epic
Blah. We'll all die of something, I just prefer not to spend quite so much time at the sink.epicstruggle said:
Besides, cancer can be treated. Why don't you read up a bit about the stuff they put in things like perfumes, deodorants and other skin-"care" products, hmm? It's quite scary, a study here in sweden with like 12 'sensitive skin' deodorant products found that ALL of them contained known irritants, almost all of them contained substances KNOWN to be environmentally hazardous, and a majority contained substances KNOWN to be carcinogenic. And we're not talking one or two irritating, hazardous and carcinogenic substances, but one single product typically had MULTIPLES of them all. And these included many international name-brand products too.
So think about that next time when you slop some of that crap on your pits...
WhiningKhan
Regular
_xxx_ said:Bah, we'll all die but it's got more style if you smell good.
Variation on the theme: We're all going to smell bad in the end anyway, why struggle against the inevitable?
arjan de lumens
Veteran
It's not inevitable. You could e.g. inflict arsenic poisoning on yourself. If you do it just right, at the time you die your entire body will be so toxic that the bacteria etc normally responsible for decomposing you cannot do their job, leaving you smell-free forever.WhiningKhan said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
"It is estimated that up to 50% of all people worldwide are infected with Toxoplasma gondii."
In infected rats the only major noticable effect is a change in behaviour. They no longer fear cat piss which makes them more likely to be eaten by a cat(the intestinal phase of the life cycle occurs only in cats).
What do they do to human brains? "...some epidemiological links may have been found between latent Toxoplasma infections and car crashes, slower reactions, an increase in risk-taking behaviors, and schizophrenia."
I'd rather try my luck with the teflon.
"It is estimated that up to 50% of all people worldwide are infected with Toxoplasma gondii."
In infected rats the only major noticable effect is a change in behaviour. They no longer fear cat piss which makes them more likely to be eaten by a cat(the intestinal phase of the life cycle occurs only in cats).
What do they do to human brains? "...some epidemiological links may have been found between latent Toxoplasma infections and car crashes, slower reactions, an increase in risk-taking behaviors, and schizophrenia."
I'd rather try my luck with the teflon.
zidane1strife
Banned
soylent said:
I've heard that schyzo-types(or some other name), are actually more creative, so as long as you don't get full blown schizophrenia, it could be beneficial, assuming tis true. Almost like Aspergers(or what was it?), not good for social relations, but if you've the intellect can be quite good for your bank account
Anyway with some of my ancestors being known heavy smokers with 90+yrs of never-hospitalized lifespan, I think I'm pretty safe gene wise. Environment wise, my veggie consumption is way way high, I consume purified fish oil, substances that've recently been shown to boost dna-repair enzyme lvls(broccoli), and I consume stacs(aka, cr mimetics) such as resveratrol and genistein to further boost my abilities.
