The always-brilliant Dr.
Joe Schwarcz, the director of McGill’s Office for Science
& Society and a chemist, has once again done what he does best:
hunting down junk science (not much of a challenge) and excoriating it.
This time he takes aim at
the animal rights zealots at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals), a radical animal rights group that is sometimes sardonically referred
to as People Eating Tasty Animals.
PETA doesn’t want you to
eat chicken (or anything else that was either an animal product, or even came
from an animal, such as milk and eggs, for that matter), but the tactics used in
their latest volley are simply laughable. As well as pitiful. They really have
hit the junk science jackpot this time.
There is a family of
chemicals called phthalates, which are used to soften plastics (the most
important use being IV tubing). They are also used in a wide variety of other
plastic products, so it is not surprising that all of us have minuscule amounts
of these chemicals in our bodies……PETA takes junk science to a new level…… ToRead More…..
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