If you want to sell newspapers, just put out a headline saying something causes cancer.
Never mind that it's a claim, based on a single example -- a French Bulldog in Canada, and that its owners had to go all the way to Italy (talk about forum shopping!) to find someone who would assert a (perhaps) causal relationship based on no evidence what so ever!
Never mind all the controlled studies on the other side showing microchips to be safe.
Never mind that in the real world, even after millions of years of real-world use in cats and dogs (millions of dogs and cats over more than 15 years), this "phenomenon" has never been reported before.
"My God, man, what does science have to do with it? There are newspapers to be sold!"
And so it is with some amusement that I read the latest breathless report from the Associated Press about microchips. It seems that someone, somewhere, says they may have caused a few cases of cancer in mice. Oh the horror! Never mind that it's not the the microchip itself that causes some very small elevation in cancer risk, but the tissue inflammation surrounding some implants.
And never mind that ANY implant or injection (yes, yes, even a vaccine) increases cancer risk some miniscule amount undetectable in the real world (unlike, say, the number of lost or unrecovered pets, or the number of animals that die every year if they are not vaccinated).
And never mind that implanting a microchip in a mouse is about equal to implanting two large cell phones in my arm.
"Hey, no fair! You've been reading the science. And you're using rational thought! We're not trying to make sense, here, we're tying to make headlines."
Oops. Sorry. My bad.
"Besides, didn't you see that there is political intrigue involved? Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson approved the microchip technology and later joined the board of the company that makes one of the more common brands?"
Uhhhh . . . you're kidding right? You think the folks at the Food and Drug Administration run their reviews and approvals past the Secretary of HHS on a daily basis?
And of all items out there that an official might take a kickback for, you think it would be a low-cost low-volume thing like a microchip for cats and dogs, rather than a $4 billion-a year-blockbuster drug? Oh, that's rich!
Please don't tell me it's new information that corporations often invite former cabinet officials and governors to join their boards of directors? Think it through, eh? Let's not be led (once more) to Panic Street by junk reporting on junk science. Get a grip people!
But of course, some people are easily concerned about things they do not understand, while ignoring the dangers of the obvious. Did you ever notice how many people drive too fast, eat too much food, drink too much alcohol, don't exercise at all, don't read the instructions before starting a chainsaw, and fail to wear protective eye wear while operating power tools? Yet, these same people can be made to hyperventilate about a nuclear power reactor located some miles away, even as they live in a rock house and work in a concrete building that exposes them to more radiation in a month than they would get in a year if they lived in a wood-frame house located across the street from this same nuclear power plant?
These people sure are gullible. With too little information at hand, these folks are too easily made to jump through hoops over some contrived crisis. This is particularly frustrating to me because I know, for a fact, that there are real things to worry about.
You want something to worry about? Here's one: Dihydrogen monoxide. It turns out that most of our foods contain dihydrogen monoxide and that DHMO is a cancer-causing agent! In fact, DHMO has been found to have a role in:
Never mind that it's a claim, based on a single example -- a French Bulldog in Canada, and that its owners had to go all the way to Italy (talk about forum shopping!) to find someone who would assert a (perhaps) causal relationship based on no evidence what so ever!
Never mind all the controlled studies on the other side showing microchips to be safe.
Never mind that in the real world, even after millions of years of real-world use in cats and dogs (millions of dogs and cats over more than 15 years), this "phenomenon" has never been reported before.
"My God, man, what does science have to do with it? There are newspapers to be sold!"
And so it is with some amusement that I read the latest breathless report from the Associated Press about microchips. It seems that someone, somewhere, says they may have caused a few cases of cancer in mice. Oh the horror! Never mind that it's not the the microchip itself that causes some very small elevation in cancer risk, but the tissue inflammation surrounding some implants.
And never mind that ANY implant or injection (yes, yes, even a vaccine) increases cancer risk some miniscule amount undetectable in the real world (unlike, say, the number of lost or unrecovered pets, or the number of animals that die every year if they are not vaccinated).
And never mind that implanting a microchip in a mouse is about equal to implanting two large cell phones in my arm.
"Hey, no fair! You've been reading the science. And you're using rational thought! We're not trying to make sense, here, we're tying to make headlines."
Oops. Sorry. My bad.
"Besides, didn't you see that there is political intrigue involved? Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson approved the microchip technology and later joined the board of the company that makes one of the more common brands?"
Uhhhh . . . you're kidding right? You think the folks at the Food and Drug Administration run their reviews and approvals past the Secretary of HHS on a daily basis?
And of all items out there that an official might take a kickback for, you think it would be a low-cost low-volume thing like a microchip for cats and dogs, rather than a $4 billion-a year-blockbuster drug? Oh, that's rich!
Please don't tell me it's new information that corporations often invite former cabinet officials and governors to join their boards of directors? Think it through, eh? Let's not be led (once more) to Panic Street by junk reporting on junk science. Get a grip people!
But of course, some people are easily concerned about things they do not understand, while ignoring the dangers of the obvious. Did you ever notice how many people drive too fast, eat too much food, drink too much alcohol, don't exercise at all, don't read the instructions before starting a chainsaw, and fail to wear protective eye wear while operating power tools? Yet, these same people can be made to hyperventilate about a nuclear power reactor located some miles away, even as they live in a rock house and work in a concrete building that exposes them to more radiation in a month than they would get in a year if they lived in a wood-frame house located across the street from this same nuclear power plant?
These people sure are gullible. With too little information at hand, these folks are too easily made to jump through hoops over some contrived crisis. This is particularly frustrating to me because I know, for a fact, that there are real things to worry about.
You want something to worry about? Here's one: Dihydrogen monoxide. It turns out that most of our foods contain dihydrogen monoxide and that DHMO is a cancer-causing agent! In fact, DHMO has been found to have a role in:
- Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Ewing's Tumor
- Chondrosarcoma
- Fibrosarcoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Colorectal cancer
- Leukemia
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Malignant melanoma.
DHMO has also been implicated in global warming, acid rain, and can even be found in astounding amounts in our Arctic and Antarctic ice caps.
Worried about microchips? Not me! I'm worried about vast quantities of cancer-causing dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) contaminating America's environment and poisoning our bodies.
This is serious stuff, but instead of dealing with it, our politicians are being paid with your tax dollars, to turn a blind eye as companies stock it on our grocery shelves and pump it in (often leaking) pipes across our great nation.
In fact, I will bet my mortgage that you have dihydrogen monoxide in your house right now! In fact, dihydrogen monoxide is found in nearly every can and bag of dog food you are now feeding your pets!
Dihydrogen monoxide is serious stuff. It it is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. It is used as both an industrial coolant and solvent, and it is used in almost all nuclear power plants and chemical plants in this country.
How toxic is this stuff? This stuff corrodes metal. It is so toxic that, in a very controversial move, the U.S. Government is now using the threat of exposure to it as a way to "aggressively interrogate" possible terrorist prisoners overseas.
Yet, in this country, dihydrogen monoxide remains a common ingredient in junk foods we feed our kids and pet foods we feed our cats and dogs!
Yet, this same toxin is also the principle ingredient in most insecticides!
This is serious stuff, and THIS is something to be worried about! Visit the web site of the U.S. Environmental Assessment Center at DHMO.org to find out the truth about Dihydrogen Monoxide. Please, get informed now, while it's still possible to save yourself, your loved ones, your dogs, your cats, and all your other pets.
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