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Anything that hasn't been shown to cause cancer yet simply hasn't been investigated hard enough.



That's a bit excessively dismissive of the issue at hand. We've investigated many substances to death that have shown no consistent increase in risk - aspartame, coffee, most vaccines, and aluminum-oxide based antiperspirants for example. Carcinogens are a very real concern, and dismissing that concern by pretending that "everything is a carcinogen, what can you do?" is unhelpful.


Dihydrogen monoxide.


...talk to the people in Flint


You know the difference between H2O (distilled water) and water, right? Like, which one of those is conductive and which one isn't, all that stuff?




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