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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I was looking at a Canadian cancer study and in 2013 187500 people in Canada were diagnosed with cancer. Out of a population of 30 million it works out to a 0.00625 percentage which when applied to 100000 people means that 625 out of 100000 Canadian will be diagnosed with cancer this year.
I have a lot of problems with the figures that were put in place with the 4 to 500 x cancer rate in those areas.
So right there I have problems with the documentary and its accuracy vs fear mongering.
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We're not talking about cancer in general here.
Most pollutants have estrogenic or other hormonal effects on the body, leading to reproductive cancers. I have not seen any documentaries, but I've heard there is a large increase in reproductive cancers there, which seems fairly reasonable to assume when so many polyaromatic hydrocarbons are released. I'm not sure how you could avoid it there, though I'm not totally familiar with the process