An Environmental Protection Agency scientific advisory panel has expressed concern about the safety of a chemical, PFOA, used to make Teflon, the nonstick coating, though there is not a shred of evidence either Teflon or PFOA poses a human cancer risk. Unless scientists emerge from their classrooms and laboratories and express their outrage that junk science like this is used to set public policy, the EPA will continue to "protect" us from cancer risks that do not exist--and pass the extraordinarily high costs on to us.
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