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Industry Documents Show Corporate Ghouls Knew About Forever Chemicals for Decades
Major chemical companies were aware of the dangers forever chemicals posed to the public, years before they were forced to admit it. A new study in Annals of Global Health examined previously secret industry documents and saw exactly how manufacturers DuPont and 3M purposely distorted public knowledge about PFAS in their products.
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10 MCU Characters Whose Futures Are Inscrutable
It takes a lot of planning to build a comprehensive, stable cinematic universe. Marvel Studios’ ability to methodically introduce characters and future plot points has turned its movies into a reliable money-making machine. But recently, it seems like the MCU has been introducing more characters than it can handle, and what used to be a…
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America’s Arse Got Dragged in the Avengers Group Chat
It turns out that you’re never too big to get cut down to size by your friends in the group chat. Soon after Chris Evans’ Sexiest Man Alive cover for People went wide, the original Avengers — Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Mark Ruffalo — immediately began to text each…
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‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. Is There a Way to Avoid Them?
Even the name makes the problem seem intractable: “forever chemicals.” This group of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, broadly called PFAS, are persistent organic pollutants that don’t readily degrade and can affect human health, with links to liver problems, infertility, thyroid disruption, birth defects, hypertension, and many other harmful effects. They’re in our water, clothes, food,…