While we all fuss about guns, our food supply is about to kill us!

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6. It's not one extreme versus the other -- "known carcinogen" vs "totally safe"

Anyone with any training in chemical application or anyone who has bothered to read the label on any chemical you can buy knows that pesticides of all types have danger associated with them. If you follow the guidelines outlined on the label, the chances of encountering a health problem are greatly diminished.

But "known carcinigen" has a very specific meaning.

Even so, from a study of 2, 4 D commissioned by the National Institute of Health's eight scientists in 1991, one of the researchers believed that it was extremely probable that the substance would lead to non-Hodgkins sarcoma.

And two follow-up studies disagreed, finding the results inconclusive and not supportive of the original claim.

Even in the absence of the two subsequent studies, the most extreme statement you could make with scientific backing would be "suspected carcinogen".