but nowadays fish are really polluted

It's a really weird balancing act with just about everything

In 2004, a widely-cited study found the levels of PCBs, a potentially carcinogenic chemical, to be ten times higher in farmed fish than in wild-caught fish. That sounds pretty scary, but the amount of PCBs in the farmed fish was still less than 2% of the amount that would be considered dangerous. The differences may also have been exaggerated. Subsequent studies found PCB levels in farmed fish to be similar to those of wild fish.

The other contaminant that most people worry about with fish is mercury. The fish that present the biggest concern (swordfish, king mackerel. tilefish, shark, and tuna) are all wild-caught. The most common farm-raised fish (catfish, tilapia, and salmon) all have low or very low mercury levels.

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/healthy-eating/farm-raised-vs-wild-caught-fish

Another example is water. If you drink distilled or reverse osmosis water, you're filtering out the minerals which the water saps from your body on the way out. If you're catching rain water you're getting little to no minerals (and drinking whatever is in the atmosphere, which can be good and bad). Then obviously if you're drinking tap water you get minerals but become a gay frog.

I think people focus on the wrong thing, like making sure everything is completely perfect in every way, instead of the biggest takeaway, the human body is extremely resilient. So as long as you're not just constantly barraging certain organs of your body non-stop and giving them time to recover, you'll probably be okay. Just like any other defense system.

Even then, think about smokers. If you're smoking 2 packs a week, that's about 160 cigarettes a month, 1,920 cigarettes a year, and this is considered very low. a pack a day would be 6,720 a year. The fact that there are any smokers at all that die of old age is absolutely insane when you start crunching the numbers.

Read the usernames. I haven't made any analogies.

Fair enough, didn't see that.

Did you read through that link you sent me? It's super long, but it does an excellent job of disproving your point about thimerosal not necessarily being dangerous.

You said:

just because the molecule has Mercury in it, doesn't mean it's dangerous.

And that link you provided said:

Ten of 13 infants exposed to topical applications of a thimerosal tincture 0.1% for the treatment of exomphalos died.

...10 out of 13, dead. As an aside, wtf kind of bullshit parents would agree to submit their infant children to such a study?

From that link, here are a couple examples of fucked up vaccines killing people because they contained lethal doses of mercury in the form of thimerosal... which means thimerosal is hardly harmless:

Six cases of severe mercury poisoning resulting in four deaths were reported following the intramuscular administration of chloramphenicol preserved with thimerosal. A manufacturing error resulted in each vial containing 510 mg of thimerosal instead of 0.51 mg per vial. Extensive tissue necrosis was noted at the site of injection in all patients. Fever, altered mental status, slurred speech, and ataxia were noted.

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Several cases of acute mercury poisoning from thimerosal-containing products were found in the medical literature with total doses of thimerosal ranging from approximately 3 mg/kg to several hundred mg/kg. These reports included the administration of immune globulin (gamma globulin) and hepatitis B immune globulin, choramphenicol formulated with 1000 times the proper dose of thimerosal as a preservative

Not worth the risk if you ask me. The people who didn't die after receiving this accidentally high dose are not mentioned, I suspect they were pretty fucked up by it too.

This list just keeps going (thanks for the link btw, I've saved it for future debates on this issue)...

An 18 month old girl died of mercury poisoning following irrigations with an otic solution containing 0.1% thimerosal and 0.14% sodium borate. A total of 1.2 liters of solution (500 mg mercury) had been instilled over a 4 week period.

Sure doesn't sound very harmless...

5 infants, 2 female and 3 male, ranging in age from 7 to 28 months and affected by atopic dermatitis (AD) diagnosed according to the Hanifin and Rajka criteria, experienced an exacerbation of their clinical condition 2-10 days after mandatory vaccinations with vaccines containing thimerosal.

Yay for mandatory vaccinations! What could possibly go wrong?

To assess the possible toxicity of thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs) among infants, a 2-phased retrospective cohort study was conducted using computerized health maintenance organization (HMO) databases. Phase I screened for associations between neurodevelopmental disorders and thimerosal exposure among 124 170 infants who were born during 1992 to 1999 at 2 HMOs (A and B). In phase II, the most common disorders associated with exposure in phase I were reevaluated among 16 717 children who were born during 1991 to 1997 in another HMO (C). Relative risks for neurodevelopmental disorders were calculated per increase of 12.5 micro g of estimated cumulative mercury exposure from TCVs in the first, third, and seventh months of life. In phase I at HMO A, cumulative exposure at 3 months resulted in a significant positive association with tics (relative risk [RR]: 1.89; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.05-3.38). At HMO B, increased risks of language delay were found for cumulative exposure at 3 months (RR: 1.13; 95% CI: 1.01-1.27) and 7 months (RR: 1.07; 95% CI: 1.01-1.13). In phase II at HMO C, no significant associations were found.

Yeah, that sounds harmful.

We were initially highly skeptical that differences in the concentrations of thimerosal in vaccines would have any effect on the incidence rate of neurodevelopmental disorders after childhood immunization. This study presents the first epidemiologic evidence, based upon tens of millions of doses of vaccine administered in the United States, that associates increasing thimerosal from vaccines with neurodevelopmental disorders. Specifically, an analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database showed statistical increases in the incidence rate of autism (relative risk [RR] = 6.0), mental retardation (RR = 6.1), and speech disorders (RR = 2.2) after thimerosal-containing diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccines in comparison with thimerosal-free DTaP vaccines. The male/female ratio indicated that autism (17) and speech disorders (2.3) were reported more in males than females after thimerosal-containing DTaP vaccines, whereas mental retardation (1.2) was more evenly reported among male and female vaccine recipients. Controls were employed to determine if biases were present in the data, but none were found. It was determined that overall adverse reactions were reported in similar-aged populations after thimerosal-containing DTaP (2.4 +/- 3.2 years old) and thimerosal-free DTaP (2.1 +/- 2.8 years old) vaccinations. Acute control adverse reactions such as deaths (RR = 1.0), vasculitis (RR = 1.2), seizures (RR = 1.6), ED visits (RR = 1.4), total adverse reactions (RR = 1.4), and gastroenteritis (RR = 1.1) were reported similarly after thimerosal-containing and thimerosal-free DTaP vaccines. An association between neurodevelopmental disorders and thimerosal-containing DTaP vaccines was found.

What were you trying to accomplish with that link? I barely got 25% into before seeing enough evidence to demonstrate that thimerosal is harmful. Fuck, even just the first study on the list shows that.

Have you heard of the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide?

Why yes, I have ;)

I prefer to get my info from www.educatedsense.com, as I've found common sense to be wrong in most cases.