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Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer

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  1. mattmaroon · · focus · HN ↗
    “Linked to” is a keyword indicating pseudoscience. Everything is “linked to cancer”.
    1. vardalab · · focus · HN ↗
      Article does say the breast cancer rate has been increasing by one percent annually. That's significant.
      1. thesmtsolver2 · · focus · HN ↗
        How much of it is due to other sources of death being addressed?
      2. hackernud3s · · focus · HN ↗
        Whoa, at that rate it will be over 100% by 2120.
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