Talk:Daminozide

message: I think it is in a wrong category. A plant growth regulator is not a pesticide. Where should it belong instead? --Shaddack 11:28, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is :Category:Plant hormones, but since daminozide is synthetic, I don't know if it fits there.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:41, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pesticide? 

message: Should we take the liberal side and say that Alar really was dangerous ("myth" of Alar scare)?
Or should we endorse the conservative side and say that Alar "problems" were exaggerated?
*In laboratory tests, the amount fed to mice before any effect was noted was equivalent to an average adult eating 28,000 pounds of Alar-treated apples each year for 70 years, or a 10-pound infant eating 1,750 pounds per year. 
:No one can ever eat that much, or drink that much equivalent juice, yet the article cites that "the human lifetime cancer risk to be 5 per million".  If it really took an impossible quanitity to ingest, then the lifetime cancer risk would be 0 per million, or per any number you want.  Clearly, we as non-experts don't know how to intrepret any of this.  However, I'd be suspicious of a site called "heartland" on scientific matters.  The name sounds too similar to polically oriented sources that put out a lot of BS on wide varieties of topics.  I just want straight science; I don't want any nonsense about "sides".  At the time, the industry boosters were quick to compare risk of cancer from peanut butter to Alar.  Is it possible to get a reputable source that allows direct comparison of substances and foods in terms of risk?  As far as peanut butter goes, the toxin involved there now averages under 2 parts per billion, but I don't know how that translates to how much quantity required to be eaten to get cancer, or lifetime risk in per million people terms.  I sure as hell won't trust a site called "heartland" regardless. 207.189.227.82 (talk) 08:58, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a known cancer risk.  The standard is to not use synthetics with known cancer risks, I imagine.  But political commentators will gladly talk about it political terms because that what they do. 207.189.227.82 (talk) 08:58, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Describing the sides

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