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It is scary. Our best recourse is just to "trust the science", but there are a ton of parties invested in keeping the status quo.

"Trust the science" doesn't mean much. In the 70s, studies showed that jeans caused cancer. And yogurt. Other, real carcinogenic compounds were not studied. It takes ages for the dust to settle down and have a decent consensus. In the mean time, it's best to be cautionary.

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