• hector@lemmy.today
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      55 minutes ago

      Indeed, everyone trusts the wrong people. The right aligned influencers and others made a big deal of soy, even as they ignore myriad endocrine disruptors that actually do do the things they are inaccurately blaming soy for.

      One can tell them too, and they won’t believe you. Their influencers already told them people like me would lie to them about stuff like this. BPA, BPS, are the tip of an iceberg, there are so many others, many systematic in our environments, and municipal water systems. Just because you get a “safe” dose, doesn’t mean there aren’t effects, especially when every day you are getting low doses of multiple endocrine disruptors, like atrazine and other herbicides.

      Municipal water tests all have the latter in there, but when they test for pollutants, they will do it when the water table is high, like in the spring, with vastly lower pollutant levels. When the water table is low, late summer into fall, is when values spike.

      Then here we have people outside of the right aligned influencers ridiculing the harms from endocrine disruptors and other pollutants. One wonders what group influenced them to take that position.

      • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        47 minutes ago

        I had meant my post to be a response to someone else and had deleted this comment. But it’s the exact same as i left in the thread. Just fyi in case anyone sees a deleted comment and wonders what you’re responding to.

        But yeah, agree that all of this it’s just the tip of the iceberg. You’ve given me a few things to look into myself so thanks for that!