So people kind of knew asbestos was harmful wayyy before it mostly stopped being used in 1979 (USA). But, it was still used constantly in many industries and ended up everywhere. What do you think is an example of something we find out is DRASTICALLY harmful 10-50 years from now? My guess would be screen time.
Don’t know much about them.
It’s bad. It gets easily absorbed by the skin and fucks with your hormone system. It’s in all kinds of stuff- non stick pans, can linings, receipts you get at the supermarket, consumer electronics, earbuds (bad to have stuck straight into your brain in the fine membranes and capillaries of the ear canal), LOTS of clothes (basically all plastic derivatives they mix in).
With clothes or shoes and so on, if you go to an outlet and touch a PFAS coated fabric, you’ll get this thin sickly little film of oil on your fingers. That gets absorbed straight through the skin, and also now it gets on everything you touch, your face, the food you eat…
That’s the problem, the main people who do are the companies profiting. Something something conflict of interest
Here’s a Veritasium deep dive (54min) on PFAS and their history. I thought I knew about PFAS, then this video taught me more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY
Thank you!
I may be in a minority but I don’t think you should put too much trust in Veritasium, he’s known to keep fairly industry cozy opinions.
Just stay critical.