• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    4 hours ago

    “It’s not the cigarette I smoke, it’s all the bad chemicals in the cigarette” Big brain time over here

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      If they put a shitload of glyphosate on corn, it’s not corn that gives you leukemia, it’s the glyphosate, ya smarmy axe grinder.

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        The bad news about glyphosate is it’s apparently on everything. It’s at the point where it may be confounding experiments that haven’t controlled for its presence.

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          38 minutes ago

          That is just one of many, the second most used herbicide, atrazine, is in all the municipal water systems too, testing is done in spring usually when the water table is high, but in the fall when the water table is lower it returns higher values of pollutants. But atrazine is a potent endocrine disruptor, one of many out there.