Chemicals cause silent pandemic
Polly Ester Cotton | 10.11.2006 02:57 | Analysis | Ecology | Health | World
The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals has created a silent pandemic.
According to recent studies published in the medical journal, The Lancet, commonly-used chemicals are causing a significant rise in developmental brain disorders including autism, ADHD and cerebral palsy.
Research identified 202 potentially harmful chemicals, including mercury, solvents, and pesticides, that are most likely to be contributing to the dramatically rising pandemic of irreversible neurological disorders. Although, they estimate that there are more than 1,000 chemicals that are known to be neurotoxic in animals, and are also likely to be harmful to humans.
Developing brains are much more susceptible to toxic chemicals than those of adults, according to the researchers, and developing foetuses are at the highest risk. The report said;”The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals has created a silent pandemic”.
As many as one in six children are said to be affected today. Although toxic exposure can also have delayed consequences as well, causing Parkinson's disease or other neurological diseases in adults.
Research identified 202 potentially harmful chemicals, including mercury, solvents, and pesticides, that are most likely to be contributing to the dramatically rising pandemic of irreversible neurological disorders. Although, they estimate that there are more than 1,000 chemicals that are known to be neurotoxic in animals, and are also likely to be harmful to humans.
Developing brains are much more susceptible to toxic chemicals than those of adults, according to the researchers, and developing foetuses are at the highest risk. The report said;”The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals has created a silent pandemic”.
As many as one in six children are said to be affected today. Although toxic exposure can also have delayed consequences as well, causing Parkinson's disease or other neurological diseases in adults.
Polly Ester Cotton
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Are there any links please
10.11.2006 13:11
Interested Party
Cure
10.11.2006 15:01
A few pages further on is "Way of the Hunters" which I photocopied after reading "..they do not define themselves by how they get their food but by how they relate to each other." Interested people might think that an irrelevant jump from chemical pollutants, but those who heard Zerzan might see a connection.
If we will run back about 150 years we are close to the coward Darwin and the idiot Marx making their contributions. Marx was an idiot not to see the necessity of a Dialectical Synthesis between his ideas and the ideas of Malthus. Darwin was a coward who sat on his ideas for twenty years until Alfred Russel Wallace wrote him a letter that effectively published "The Origin of the Species". The paragraph headings in Wallaces letter were used as the chapter headings in Darwin's book.
Wallace later went on to suggest the path of future human evolution, He talks of Hospitality and Co-operation as lines of evolutionary development. It may be that he also had a sharp idea about the polluting consequences of industrial development. Over sixty years ago in Neath old men talked about Coal being too precious to burn. Anyone know the source of that idea? Wallace was lecturing in the Mechanics Institute in Neath about 1850, The nephew of the man (died 1907) who coined the phrase 'Anarcho-Syndicalist' gave a pretty accurate description in 1943 of coming ecological catastrophe being the result of industrialisation..
If you think about that Bushman self description, you might conclude that Wallace was wrong about it being future evolution, it is the natural state of poor people. All the evils come from Money and Civilisation. We have to think on along Edward Carpenters' lines "Civilisation, its cause and cure" How do we effect the CURE?
Ilyan
Where's the Reference?
10.11.2006 16:16
But apparently there's a reference to it in the latest New Scientist. Wwhat issue? What page? Quotes? No, because someone else wants to add some more unsourced allegations about Darwin, Marx, Wallace and Primitivism. Very kind I'm sure but not what was asked for.
This doesn't amount to anything, certainly not News, until you show us some sources.
I don't believe this
Links:
10.11.2006 17:43
..or…
Chemical pollution 'responsible for silent pandemic of brain damage'
Millions of children 'damaged by chemicals'
Chemical pollution 'harms children's brains'
Danger: chemical hazards
A 'Silent Pandemic' Of Brain Disorders
A Silent Pandemic: Industrial Chemicals Are Impairing Brain Development Of Children Worldwide
Or type “The Lancet chemicals autism” into Google news for all 77 news articles.
Definitely Not Lord Sainsbury
Believe References.
10.11.2006 17:57
The sources for Marx was a professional agent of International Communism, and an Anarchist who had skipped South Africa in a hurry after being involved in organising mixed race trade unions back around 1920. The necessity for a Dialectical Synthesis of Marx and Malthus is what I later, around 1950, derived from their instruction.. I do not know how close the Chinese were to that thinking then.
Any of those three could run intellectual rings around most academics I have met.
Ilyan
Thank you Not-Lord S
11.11.2006 11:11
Monkee
Medical Expediency
11.11.2006 15:17
It seems that this corporate control extends not only to a corrupted peer review process that results in a biased view being presented to the medical community by compliant or ineffectual editors of medical journals, but the US government now insists that scientists must be politically approved before the scientists can participate in meetings of the World Health Organisation.
As if the control of medical science by industry were not bad enough, it has long been suspected but now seems certain that governments themselves exert an equally tight stranglehold on a nation’s health.
By 2003, the UK Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury, had donated over £11 million to the Labour Party. The Science Minister has responsibility for the Office of Science and Technology and for the chemical and biotech industries, as well as for all the Research Councils, including the Medical Research Council. The Office of Science and Technology monitors all Government funding of research grants and it controls official science policy.
Crucially, it is “policy” that determines the research that Government permits to be funded. This was most tellingly confirmed by the Secretary of State for Health (answered by Yvette Cooper) in a written answer to a question asking about funding for research into the causes of, and cure for, ME (Hansard: 11 May 2000: 461W 462W). In her reply, Ms Cooper stated “The Department funds research to support policy and the delivery of effective health practice in the National Health Service”. This seems to confirm the invincibly circuitous nature of Government strategy.
However, even more disturbing information has just been released and was posted on Co-cure on 26th June 2004 at 19.06 (Co-cure NOT; ACT: [US]: WHO scientists will require clearance). The notice states that the Bush administration has ordered that Government scientists must be approved by a senior political appointee before they can participate in meetings of the World Health Organisation. Officials at the WHO in Geneva say this could compromise the independence of international scientific deliberations.
The request is the latest instance in which the Bush administration has been accused of allowing politics to intrude into the once-sacrosanct areas of scientific deliberation. Prominent scientists accused the administration of “misrepresenting and suppressing scientific knowledge for political purposes”. Republican Henry Waxman said “This new policy politicises the process of providing the expert advice of US scientists to the international community”.
The WHO is the United Nations agency dedicated to health. It traditionally insists on picking experts to sit on official scientific panels, but William Steiger, godson of President Bush’s father (former President George HW Bush), stated in a letter declaring the new vetting policy that civil service and other regulations “require experts to serve as representatives of the US government at all times and advocate US Government policies”.
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See also:
"The present upsurge in chemically-induced ME/ICD-CFS"
DUed
Ecoquiz
11.11.2006 22:23
1) start an endless discussion,
2) get together with a few friends and produce a leaflet to give outside supermarkets, with the list of the most dangerous chemicals,
3) dress as carrots,
4) start a riot,
6) write to the Prime Minister,
7) drink to forget,
7b) smoke a lot of dope,
8) do something else,
9) do nothing.
greengrass
"how are we going to act upon it?"
12.11.2006 00:36
Socialists needn’t feel smug at my mockery of the greens, you all need to make yourselves aware of this hidden pollution and health issue too. Millions are affected and everyone is at risk, although some more than others...
Most of the people affected by this pandemic can not (for one reason or another) represent themselves. They need political and social campaigners to help represent them. And that my friend means YOU!
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