Food Science Babe: 5 basic scientific concepts to help you spot pseudoscience

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12. a bit misleading and dated

the chemical industry has successfully fought off testing for and accounting for effects such as endocrine disrupting chemicals. In some cases higher doses are safer than lower doses. Testing is being done but not by the industry - at least they are not sharing their research.

The dose makes the poison is outdated as we learn more about the effects of chemical exposures. Also it is not honest to compare for example, an apple that is made up of many chemicals with a single chemical. Mixtures behave differently than exposure to a single chemical.

I have seen this sort of thing being used by an ag university prof to get our little hamlet to stop our no spray on roadside policy. It was laughable as most people realized. We are still using mowers instead of the more highly toxic herbicides our state uses elsewhere.