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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. rdiddly · · focus · HN ↗
      "Linked to" by having been studied and shown to increase tumor rates in rodent testing. That not good enough for ya? Too pseudo-sciencey?
      1. anon48293 · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes. Rodents are extremely susceptible to cancers.

        Might be as high as 57% of all rats developing cancers.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aacrjournals.org&#x2F;cancerres&#x2F;article&#x2F;16&#x2F;3&#x2F;194&#x2F;473297&#x2F;Tumor-Incidence-in-Normal-Sprague-Dawley-Female" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aacrjournals.org&#x2F;cancerres&#x2F;article&#x2F;16&#x2F;3&#x2F;194&#x2F;473297&#x2F;T...

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