Digital BW, The Print

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> Somebody *invariably" cries "no scientific evidence" when someone
> raises the Pyro/Parkinsons question or express the belief. Those
> kneejerk denials are also themselves urban legends and are inherently
> dangerous: It's better to ignorantly fear a known toxic chemical than
> it is to trust it.
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> Of course no "scientific link" has been established! Nobody has a
> vested interest in the chemical and hardly anybody even touches it,
> probably due to its dark legend. We won't know if there's a
> "scientific" link because there will never be a study...just the
> perhaps-sometimes-substantive anecdotes and the equally naieve
> automatic denials (originating mostly on the Internet and in photo
> classes).
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> The grownups among us may remember that the tobacco companies invested
> literally billions in false advertising and political bribes to
> convince us that there was "no scientific evidence" linking tobacco
> and lung cancer.
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> Lack of "scientific evidence" is not meaningful information.
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