What would happen that was bad if we banned this until we had more safety evidence?
Some companies would lose money. We can't allow that.
These are the kind of well-sourced comments I come to Hacker News for
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
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#34What would happen that was bad if we banned this until we had more safety evidence?
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#35When you drink your coffee without caffeine in your 30 for escaping a harm from caffeine, but end up with Parkinson in your 60+.
Why would you drink coffee if not for the caffeine.
It's not exactly the most delicious drink.
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#36That chemical is trichloroethylene. Even Science does clickbait now.
Not sure I'd call it clickbait, and they do mention it right away. It'd be like putting a mathematical expression in the headline of an article about neural networks.
Widely known ambiguity with verb tense in English used to write clickbait.
“Once widely used chemical in the 70s…” or a “Formerly widely used chemical” - was that so hard?
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#37"But that “really means nothing for what’s already in the environment,” De Miranda says. Mitigating against exposure is tricky, she adds, because, unlike with pesticides, underground TCE locations aren’t always documented."
Really disturbing.
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#38Started gabapentin, couple weeks later I had Parkinson’s
Took awhile to clear up. Had a few rounds of this before I figured out that gabapentin induced Parkinson’s was a thing.
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#40Widely used chemical *(that was generally phased out in the 70s) linked to Parkinson's. Still important, but you don't need to start searching product labels in 2023 for it.
Was it? Read about its use in industry in 90s including a story about someone who got brain damaged by it.