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Editorial on the lab explosion at University of Hawaii in 2016. Basic safety rules were not followed, allowing a simple static electricity discharge to detonate pressurized gas, resulting in the lab worker losing her right arm. http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/08/d-j-vu-all-over-again … [Read more...] about “Totally predictable and preventable” accident costs lab researcher an arm

https://www.studyfinds.org/chronic-disease-phthalates-chemicals-men/ So this study seems to identify a correlation between chronic disease and high phthalate levels in urine. But correlation is not causation, and nothing in the summary article gives any indication of a causation mechanism. (Forget the bit about the state of CA thinking phthalates cause cancer; CA thinks … [Read more...] about Phthalate Questions