Funny how nowhere in the entire article about this study does it mention how the study was conducted and who the subjects were.
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If you read the study itself however, you'll find that the study was done on the fetuses of FEMALE RATS. They basically killed the moms, extracted the unborn rats, yanked out their lungs, chopped those lungs up into tiny one millimeter cubes, and then soaked them in a solution of compounds with concentrations perhaps hundreds, perhaps millions, perhaps trillions of times more virulent than any unborn child's lungs would ever encounter in a standard situation from so-called "thirdhand smoke" even if you DID yank ou their lungs and chop them up!
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And yet this study is being used, with help from the authors' statements like “Pregnant women should avoid homes and other places where thirdhand smoke is likely to be found to protect their unborn children against the potential damage these toxins can cause..."
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When one considers the harms to human life, social fabric, and family structure that have been and will be caused by expositions like this the outcome is almost criminally reprehensible. Consider the grandparents who won't be visited by their children this year on Christmas because those children will be fearful of prenatally poisoning their babies' lungs by going to a house where people had smoked ten years previously. If this sort of yellow journalism or "yellow research" is not a crime, it certainly should be.
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Michael J. McFadden,
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
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Funny how nowhere in the entire article about this study does it mention how the study was conducted and who the subjects were.
May 12, 2011 - 8:17pm'
If you read the study itself however, you'll find that the study was done on the fetuses of FEMALE RATS. They basically killed the moms, extracted the unborn rats, yanked out their lungs, chopped those lungs up into tiny one millimeter cubes, and then soaked them in a solution of compounds with concentrations perhaps hundreds, perhaps millions, perhaps trillions of times more virulent than any unborn child's lungs would ever encounter in a standard situation from so-called "thirdhand smoke" even if you DID yank ou their lungs and chop them up!
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And yet this study is being used, with help from the authors' statements like “Pregnant women should avoid homes and other places where thirdhand smoke is likely to be found to protect their unborn children against the potential damage these toxins can cause..."
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When one considers the harms to human life, social fabric, and family structure that have been and will be caused by expositions like this the outcome is almost criminally reprehensible. Consider the grandparents who won't be visited by their children this year on Christmas because those children will be fearful of prenatally poisoning their babies' lungs by going to a house where people had smoked ten years previously. If this sort of yellow journalism or "yellow research" is not a crime, it certainly should be.
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Michael J. McFadden,
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
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