Yeah... And Isn't that a Fundamental Problem when Most Media Outlets want to do an Article that Involves a Science Study.
They want to present, Basically, a piece of OP-Ed and have people perceive it as "Hard Science".
Minty e-cig contains carcinogen called pulegone?
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Yeah... And Isn't that a Fundamental Problem when Most Media Outlets want to do an Article that Involves a Science Study.
They want to present, Basically, a piece of OP-Ed and have people perceive it as "Hard Science".
You obviously don't understand how modern science works. To answer each of those questions will require at least one additional study per question that they need funding for. If they answered all the questions upfront, how could they justify additional funding and studies?
Text of the actual study is not free:
Risk Analysis for Pulegone in Mint- and Menthol-Flavored e-Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products
So we only get what tidbits and quotes the authors have released in their press releases and/or interviews with the press.
The fact that they promote how pulegone is a carcinogen and is now banned by the FDA as a food additive while true, strikes me as irresponsible science at best. It has been banned essentially on a technicality based on the Delaney clause of 1965 which allows for ZERO risk: that is, any study which shows carcinogen effects, regardless of exposure levels, means an additive must be banned. The study used to petition the FDA to ban pulegone used very high levels of pulegone --- toxic levels high enough to kill many of the study rats.
I see what you mean.
And I guess if a Media Outlet did provide Meaningful Information backed by Published Peer-Reviewed Studies, it would be Harder for them to Justify Hyperbolic article titles.
Which is the Name of the Game when Advertising Metrics are based on Click Counts. Or when a Media Outlet is trying to Push Agenda down viewers throats
Thank you for the Link. But I'll pass on paying for what was actually Studied.
And instead, I will place my Trust that a Media Outlet will give me a Fair, Honest, and Unbiased account to how using an e-Cigarette may or may not effect my Health.
Because Green is the Topical Buzz Word in Today's News Stories.
That... and because Green Text is Sarcasm.
This is what sarcastic really looks like.
Can we now return to colors appropriate for the eyesight of average person of advanced age has so we don't have to squint to read a post? We're not all 17 in here.
Can we now return to colors appropriate for the eyesight of average person of advanced age has so we don't have to squint to read a post? We're not all 17 in here.
I posted in another, similar thread that I'd like to see the cancer scores of other items we consume on a routine basis. What would the number be for a spoonful of saccharin? a grilled cheese sandwich? Pine pollen in the spring? Spraying Roundup into the wind without eye protection?
Why do I have a feeling I probably don't want to know the cancer scores of all those things?
Well I guess we'll never really be certain if you listened to that BS today how could you ever believe anything they said ever again
As per usual it seems the problem isn’t actually science, it’s science warped by marketing an dthe unscrupulous.
According to the wiki there were multiple tests on the material. The first one labeled it GRAS. The second one didn’t, but used far higher doses over a shorter period and it was pointed out that the amounts used were so high they could cause problems simply by volume alone. Science done too quick and too cheap used by people with a dog in the fight.
According to the wiki there were multiple tests on the material. The first one labeled it GRAS. The second one didn’t, but used far higher doses over a shorter period and it was pointed out that the amounts used were so high they could cause problems simply by volume alone. Science done too quick and too cheap used by people with a dog in the fight.
Well I guess we'll never really be certain if you listened to that BS today how could you ever believe anything they said ever again
I haven't believed it in a very long time anyway.
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