{"id":506,"date":"2010-05-12T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-05-19T07:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:25:40","slug":"good-news-for-the-hystericals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/good-news-for-the-hystericals\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News for the Hystericals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bird wing bones\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/5\/birdwing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"324\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuff that grows on docks (or doesn&#39;t anymore) part IV.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Breaking news: John Oliver of the Daily Show reports chilly neck breezes to be the leading killer of British people.<\/p>\n<p>I could write a post about the importance of scarves or, as John Oliver argued, ascots, for everyone, not just the British. Some days it seems like almost anything can be proven hazardous or healthful if the right study is conducted by the right (or wrong) people.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m not going to write that post because I\u00a0can write about\u00a0this: last week, President Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/deainfo.nci.nih.gov\/advisory\/pcp\/pcp.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cancer panel<\/a>\u00a0 filed a report stating that the contribution of chemicals and pollutants to the growing rate of cancers has been \u201cgrossly underestimated.\u201d New hope and validation in the land of the hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/deainfo.nci.nih.gov\/advisory\/pcp\/pcp08-09rpt\/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0also said that &#8220;With the growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer, the public is becoming increasingly aware of the unacceptable burden of cancer resulting from environmental and occupational exposures that could have been prevented through appropriate national action.&#8221; Appropriate national action\u2026 That would be so awesome.<\/p>\n<p>This from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/06\/AR2010050603813.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post article<\/a>: \u201cChildren are particularly vulnerable because they are smaller and are developing faster than adults, the panel found. The report noted unexplained rising rates of some cancers in children, and it referred to recent studies that have found industrial chemicals in umbilical-cord blood, which supplies nutrients to fetuses. \u2018To a disturbing extent, babies are born &#8216;pre-polluted,\u2019 the panel wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The end result was a recommendation that the government overhaul the laws regulating the chemical industry. Wouldn\u2019t that be something?<span id=\"_marker\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news: John Oliver of the Daily Show reports chilly neck breezes to be the leading killer of British people. I could write a post about the importance of scarves or, as John Oliver argued, ascots, for everyone, not just the British. Some days it seems like almost anything can be proven hazardous or healthful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-hmn-reports","category-popular","category-stuff-that-grows-on-docks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}