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  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE projectEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Is it? I find it funny. Because you have people who lose their shit over tofu having estrogen turning men into women (aka soyboys) but they are too dumb to realize that it is a different type of estrogen (phytoestrogen).

    But if we extrapolate that all estrogen is big bad scary then OPs comment is spot on with my own lived experiences. Just this past Christmas season my BIL was visiting and this came up.

    The article states that the chemicals could be

    Bisphenol A (BPA) appeared in 98% of samples, and its substitute, bisphenol S (BPS), was found in more than three-quarters. Synthetic chemicals used to stiffen plastic, BPA and BPS mimic the action of oestrogen inside organisms, causing a range of adverse effects including the feminisation of males, early onset puberty in girls, and cancer. Previous studies have shown that bisphenols can migrate from synthetic materials into sweat, and that they can be absorbed through the skin.

    So if tofu is bad then yeah…people should lose their shit over this too. But im sure you thought about all of that before making your one line reactionary zinger, right?