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Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled
- transfire 3y agoThey’re baffled? Look around. We are swimming in artificially synthesized chemicals. What so hard to understand?
- darkclouds 3y agoI wouldnt trust my life with doctors, they are no better than religious academics. The drug companies know more than them!
- missedthecue 3y agoThere was a lot more of that hazardous carcinogenic stuff 50 years ago though. Baby cribs used to be made from asbestos. Every other person was a smoker. Houses were painted with lead. This trend is very very recent.
- beretguy 3y agoMaybe car tires dust then?
- jareklupinski 3y agothere would be a clear geographic distribution of cancers along major highways vs rural areas with little traffic which may be happening? not sure if anyone actually tried making a survey along those lines yet; I think currently most of the time a geographic distrubution of cancers is assessed to find chemical leaks e.g. superfund sites
- joe-collins 3y agoWhy people still make the appeal to nature fallacy, for starters.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoWere the crazies saying 5G causes cancer right after all?
- jsnell 3y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954317
- jaylane 3y ago[flagged]
- koolba 3y agoYou’re a few inches off: https://healthland.time.com/2013/06/03/its-true-you-can-get-throat-cancer-from-oral-sex/ https://healthland.time.com/2013/06/03/its-true-you-can-get-...
- maximus-decimus 3y agoI guess gen z will be immune them, with all their HPV vaccines.
- talldatethrow 3y agoYes but they'll get other things technically because of it. For example, you're more likely to get dementia if you had the HPV vaccine vs if you never had HPV in the first place. Of course, it's not trivial to avoid getting HPV in the first place... You'd have to basically only have one partner and you'd have to have been their only partner as well.. but for all the health conscious talk you see, you rarely see that recommended these days.
- zx8080 3y ago> Of course, it's not trivial to avoid getting HPV in the first place... You'd have to basically only have one partner and you'd have to have been their only partner as well. It's better to have no partner at all than to hope for the above condition to be true.
- talldatethrow 3y agoFor 16-19 year olds, it's not that hard. Even at 19, I'd say about 15-20% of women haven't had a partner yet. For males it's closer to 40% these days.
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