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They were never really properly investigated.

Eban's "Bottle of Lies" book is shocking: https://www.katherineeban.com/bottleoflies

Peter Attia on Youtube also did an investigation on this.

If you're lucky your drugs have the right amount of the active ingredient. If you're unlucky they have chalk dust in them. If you're even more unlucky, they have carcinogens in them.



the term carcinogen is very broad, I think you just mean the bad ones can cause harm (sorry, former CA resident here)


> the term carcinogen is very broad

No, it is very much not. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carcinogen

> I think you just mean the bad ones can cause harm

There are no "good" carcinogens. They're all bad. They all cause harm and cancer because that's the one and only meaning of that term.


Carcinogens cause cancer. Not just random harm.


Cause with some probability, right? What's the increase in relative and absolute risk? (+ dose?)




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