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Originally Posted by JamesB
This is another example of how good (pure) science becomes molested by the media.
The drugs detected in the water supply are within what is known as the "Horwitz" limit of detection. Long story short, the levels detected are within a special region of values what in most cases exceeds 50% probability due to the concentration levels alone. I'm not sure I can simplify the explanation too much without either taking too long, or over-simplifying the idea.
At the detected levels, there is no biological activity in humans. When doses are worked out, they are done on a mass-drug to mass(equiv)-subject basis. Ie. 1mg per 1kg body-weight. The values published are well below what any toxicologist will refer to as a dosage-response curve.
I'm only worried for phytoplankton and other extremely small organisms at the lowest trophic levels of the ecosystem.
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what about bacteria growing immune to the antibiotics? We lose our antibiotics and it's a whole new world again.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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