03-10-2008, 04:27 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
People in masks cannot be trusted
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Drugs in our drinking water.
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03-10-2008, 05:28 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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Location: Ottawa
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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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03-10-2008, 05:41 AM | #3 (permalink) | |
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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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03-10-2008, 05:45 AM | #4 (permalink) | |
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This really doesn't suprise me too much. All that medication has to go somewhere and too much of anything usually ends up in the water supply.
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03-10-2008, 06:02 AM | #5 (permalink) | |
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03-10-2008, 06:05 AM | #6 (permalink) | |
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The original "bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics" stems from two problems: 1. over-prescribing antibiotics for non-bacterial infections 2. ignorant people NOT taking the full course of their prescription The over-prescribing lead to stead low-level exposure of normally harmless bacteria in (and on) our bodies to antibiotics. This presents a "selective pressure" in which bacteria that are able to break-down the antibiotics before they are prevented from growing are preferentially selected -for- and all non-resistant bacteria tend to die. The now antibiotic resistant bacteria are able to "communicate" their resistance via. a few DNA swapping methods that enable other (possibly pathogenic) bacteria to be resistant to the same (in some cases family) of antibiotic. This is a 'nut-shell' version of how MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) was evolved. Yes. I said it - evolved
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03-10-2008, 03:48 PM | #7 (permalink) | ||
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Say, are you a part of Big Brother? We're in for a world of shit as time goes on. Ask anyone you know in their late 70s and older how many people they knew when they were kids that had cancer. Even cigs weren't as bad for you back then. I don't care how much you try to simplify this, it's happening. And unless you're qualified scientist looking at the data over time I'm just not buying your point of view. Sorry, nothing personal.
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03-10-2008, 04:47 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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Not very surprising considering most local governments still follow the archaic practice of water fluoridation. Still, it's definitely a tad bit odd how this is being considered recent news. I'd imagine most of these substances have been present in our water supply for decades.
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03-10-2008, 05:31 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
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03-10-2008, 06:22 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Location: Phoenix
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Yeah.. this is why I didnt hook up to the city water when asked.
I'll take my nicely filtered well water. 100% natural from 115 feet below the earth. Then twice filtered. Then water softened. Tastes great.
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03-10-2008, 06:44 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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03-10-2008, 06:58 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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This is something they will need to figure out. I don't think this is an entirely new problem, but this case is widespread, indeed. Education is key.
For the record, I'm comfortable drinking Toronto tap water.
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03-10-2008, 07:08 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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_A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water.
Ironic... Water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed, the AP found. For example, the head of a group representing major California suppliers said the public "doesn't know how to interpret the information" and might be unduly alarmed. QFT Quote:
Thanks for posting this. It reminds of of the arsenic in the water scare BS from early 2001.
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03-11-2008, 04:03 AM | #16 (permalink) |
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Location: Windiwana
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you know, this thread gives me a great idea!
::Grabs vial of LSD and runs to well:: no but seriously. Even if its not enough to harm you, its still quite disturbing. Im glad i dont live in the city, for once.
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03-11-2008, 04:22 AM | #17 (permalink) |
Metal and Rock 4 Life
Location: Phoenix
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You also have to think about the amount of shit that we breath in daily, drink even in well water, eat in our foods.
Everything we do, I'm sure there are minute amounts of things that we wish we'd never know about. The media is most definitely blowing this out of proportion (What dont they use as fear tactics?) and it could just be like germs. A little here and there helps make us stronger.
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03-11-2008, 06:27 AM | #18 (permalink) | |||||
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We have studied the effects of low-level hormone exposure in humans for -years- now. We know many of the effects, both beneficial and harmful. Similarly, science has been studying the effect of low-level exposure to many other drugs in our food and water, but these studies have not enjoyed the same duration of study as the hormone studies. Bioactive drugs do not remain in the body either in their pure form, or as metabolites for very long (few exceptions, but they are engineered that way). So this 'build up' argument it false at this level. What you -may- be tying to explain is something called bioaccumulation. This is certainly a problem, as I glossed over in my first post. Quote:
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I happen to have read many hundreds of scientific papers on environmental microbiology and chemistry. How much more informed / "qualified" do I need to be? No offense taken. What's your background aside from paranoia?
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03-11-2008, 08:09 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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I have been aware of this for a few years. I read about it in a book by Stephen Harrod Buhner (also a man of many scientific degrees) called The Lost Language of Plants Interestingly, plants have complex immune systems that are affected by chemical changes in the parts per billion range. Most of the life on our planet are affected by such "minute" chemical alterations. We do not live here on this planet alone. If there is a blip over here in the single-celled neighborhood, then guess what? It will affect us too. We live in a loop. The drug residue pissed out by your next door neighbor on chemotherapy is not the extent of the pharmaceuticals that land in our environment. A much larger amount of toxins are produced as a by-product of the manufacturing process and released into the environment.
Any continued attempt to brush aside the damage we are doing to ourselves and our world at this point seem grimly laughable to me. In the end, our choices as CONSUMERS dictates our future. over and out, good buddy.
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03-13-2008, 07:27 AM | #20 (permalink) | |
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I'm sure all those papers are 100% accurate. Personally, I wouldn't trust that stuff with my life - been through too many filters and there's far too much money in the balance. Kind of like all the research grants at colleges that are funded by the pharm companies. There's a real system of checks and balances! My background is as an informed consumer who reads a great deal from many sources including medical journals and the like and who has many business associates and friends that understand this stuff. And I'm a realist. Thanks for pegging me as paranoid. I'm sure that's my prevailing problem. Good luck with your strategy - you have to go with whatever works for you.
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03-13-2008, 11:45 AM | #21 (permalink) |
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I wouldn't say that I am indifferent - though I can see how my posts may suggest this. I am very much concerned for the microbiota (ie. all the small things you never see) since they are as I said before, the first 'trophic' level on the food chain.
My intent when posting was to remind people of the 'real' science behind the buzz. I am not terribly worried about the human effects of -barely- detectable compounds in our water. I am worried about the microbiota instead.
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03-15-2008, 07:02 AM | #22 (permalink) | |
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I'm very careful how I live, how I impact the envirnment and what consume. I eat organic, am part of a local farmer food coop, stay away from hign fructose corn syrup, hygrogenated oils refined sugar and white flower, use plastics in a very minimal way, recycle, don't take pills to cure every ill that comes along - that sort of thing. Even drive a hybrid. I hate what we are doing to the world in a lot of cases. I also know how many things happen a little bit over time and then one day surprise us with how they've added up. What hurts on a microbial level today moves up the chain of life and eventually has an impact on us. That might have something to do with all the 2nd and 3rd grader girls all of a sudden coming nto pruberty years before their time. We need to figure those things out. I suspect we're on the same page.
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03-20-2008, 01:12 AM | #23 (permalink) |
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And here, gentlemen, we have found the vector by which the Communists are polluting our pure, precious bodily fluids, so superior in nature to anything they possess.
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