The main criticism I have of this study is they don't even try to falsify their assumptions. They could have easily conducted the same analysis in a comparable setting without any known contamination and looked for similar signals.
False. There is no comparable setting without any known contamination.
The modules in cars with voltage regulators are shielded. The data buses are a real concern. However, they could also easily and cheaply be shielded. CAN also uses a differential signal on a twisted pair, which limits the noise.
I'm not sure it saved them any money, as here in the UK they come with a compressor and patch kit instead of the tyre.
Spoken like a guy who has never bought a compressor or a tire.
The compressors they give you with the car are trash. They are $10-$20 at wholesale. You can get a pretty decent compressor (that you would want to reuse) for less than the cost of one tire, at retail prices.
That's still not why they did it, of course. They DID do it for packaging reasons. Not having a spare means not having to have space for the spare. But they ARE saving money.
So don't have those things. Anything which takes a coin cell should be removed from the household, or at least locked up in a box where it's inaccessible.
This is not rocket surgery.
And no, you canÃ(TM)t watch them literally every second of the day, itÃ(TM)s simply not possible.
It is possible if both parents don't have to go to work. People used to literally be with their children all day for the first few years of their lives. They didn't want them to wander off into the woods and get eaten by a wildcat or whatever.
Preventable with effort.
It might be a lot of effort, but that doesn't mean it's not possible.
What I actually think is that most parents severely underestimate the difficulty of parenting, so they half-ass it and then if everything works out OK anyway they tell themselves they did a good job. Outcomes are the easiest way to measure, but if they only succeeded by chance, then it really wasn't their doing.
If you're not willing to sanitize your household to make it child safe then you're not a good parent.
If you became a parent accidentally when you couldn't afford to make your household child safe, guess what? Also not a good parent.
I do have a good idea of how hard parenting is, that's one reason I chose not to do it. I've had several opportunities. I always passed, sometimes resulting in the end of a relationship. It was always the right call.
Yes, there is an antitoxin for botulism, and the amount needed is based on the amount ingested so if it is addressed promptly, you know the rest.
In this case, "correlation is not causation" is pure stupidity (of which lots of people have tons). Obviously, cardiovascular diseases do not cause more PFAS. That leaves one option for non-causation: a common thing that causes more cardiovascular diseases _and_ more PFAS. That thing would have found by now if it existed. Hence yes, this is causation.
Was only a question of time, really.
Indeed. Or man does the same crap. Too many "modern" human beings look for somebody else to blame when they screwed up.
For the case of "baby dies", there are basically two options 1) Misadventure. It happens. Sometimes things get overlooked even when careful. No punishment, the parent(s) are going to blame themselves enough. 2) Criminally negligent homicide. Make it clear to people that having a baby comes with responsibilities to be taken seriously.
In all cases: Give people real sex education and give people real education what it means to raise a child.
This is not what happens here. What happens is that the responsible adult did not realize something was a danger. Or would you regard, say, needles, knives, detergents, matches, magnets, etc. as "flawed designs"?
Incidentally, that "reflex spit action" does not work at any age.
If it's shit laws all the way down you won't be allowed to use a VPN without a license
Indeed. Especially as the tech "solutions" cannot really fix the problem. Be a damn parent and take responsibility if you decided to have kids or were too stupid to find out how to not have them.
On that note, emergency rooms in Australia want to stop people doing that because it would be an absolute catastrophe if one of these snakes gets loose in a hospital.
As to having kids spit the thing out, that only works after they have developed sufficient sense of taste. Hence this can help (if everybody does it, which is not realistic) but it cannot do that much.
That is actually bullshit in the given context. Kids of a certain age take everything they can in their mouths and sometimes swallow it. No connection to intelligence or insight, it is a natural development stage and there is nothing that can be done about it. The only thing that works is to keep dangerous objects away from the kids at that age. But asking parents to do that and take responsibility is apparently too much to ask these days.
Obviously, as soon as they are able to understand it, teach them to not take stuff in their mouth that is not food.
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
