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Date Posted: 08:41:53 07/10/04 Sat
Author: DamnRam
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My take on this as an environmentalist
In reply to: Jon 's message, "Re: Allen Article - From Friday T&G" on 10:37:39 07/09/04 Fri

One of the reasons I'm a diehard environmentalist is because I've read literally hundreds of stories over the years about how exposure to various chemicals, drugs, and radioactive materials have caused injury and death. Everything from cancer to convulsions, blindness to skin and hair falling off, infertility to insanity, birth defects to retardation, it's really quite shocking at the many natural and manmade hazards in our home and work environments, water and air, and even our food supply. If the public knew or paid attention they would be shocked.

I think the reason why there's so much disagreement over MCS is because it's used as a catch-all term to describe conditions and symptoms that we reasonably suspect are caused by exposure to chemicals, but can't really be sure. Given the practically infinite number of variables involved in each person's environment, genetics, lifestyle, and physiology, number of exposures, etc. it's no surprise that they can't pin down the precise factors and chronology. It doesn't mean that a person's condition isn't real, or that there isn't a real cause for it, just that some doctors may be looking for a simple cause-effect when the nature of incidental poisoning is often much more subtle and complex. The fact that certain companies and industries may stand to lose profits or even get sued over certain ingredients, effluent releases, by-products, etc. and that they fight study, regulation, or banning of those chemicals certainly doesn't help advance the public good and the body of knowledge any.

I'm guessing that they probably won't ever really determine what caused his demise and death, especially since there was no autopsy, and probably no blood work or tissue analysis. For all we know it could have been a genetic defect that suddenly kicked in and caused the immune system to attack, perhaps triggered by an environmental variable, perhaps not.

Very sad, my condolences to all.

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[> [> [> Saw this article after posting above -- DamnRam, 09:09:50 07/10/04 Sat

This is turning to be a big concern given the pervasiveness of these chemicals in all sorts of everyday products. What's the long-term effect of absorbing these into our body, and having these possibly interact with other chemicals? Who knows...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/09/eveningnews/consumer/main628634.shtml

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