THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 130, May 22, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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BOGUS SEX SCARES USED TO BAN BPA:
THE BPA FILE, PART FIVE
By Alan Caruba
THE MASSIVE, GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN BISPHENOL-A (BPA), A CHEMICAL THAT HAS BEEN SAFELY USED FOR OVER
FIFTY YEARS TO PROTECT METAL & PLASTIC CONTAINERS FOR FOOD & LIQUID AGAINST SPOILAGE & THE RESULTING
HAZARD TO HUMAN HEALTH -- ANTI-BPA PROPAGANDA FREQUENTLY TARGETING THE FEARS OF MOTHERS OF NEWBORN
INFANTS, BUT ALSO ALLEGING A WIDE VARIETY OF OTHER HEALTH THREATS, INCLUDING LOSS OF A HEALTHY SEX LIFE
FOR MEN & WOMEN -- ANTI-BPA CAMPAIGN PURSUED BY A COALITION OF ENVIRONMENTALIST & CONSUMER
ACTIVIST GROUPS THAT DEPEND ON THEIR SCARE CAMPAIGN TO MAINTAIN FUNDING & SECURE MEMBERS WHO CAN BE
RELIED UPON TO IGNORE OR REJECT THE SCIENCE THAT DISPUTES SUCH CAMPAIGNS -- THE CORE BELIEF AT THE HEART OF
THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT: BELIEF THAT THE HUMAN SPECIES IS ENDANGERING THE EARTH BY USE OF THE
REMARKABLE TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED DURING THE PAST CENTURY -- HENCE, THE ULTIMATE AGENDA OF THE
ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THE CENTRAL GOAL OF THE ANTI-BPA CAMPAIGN: REDUCE THE WORLDWIDE HUMAN
POPULATION
FULL STORY:
Over the course of the first four elements of The BPA File, we have documented a massive, global campaign to
ban bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical that has been safely used for more than a half century to protect metal and plastic
containers for food and liquid against spoilage and the resulting hazard to health.
Every day, somewhere in the nation and the world, there is a constant repetition of lies regarding BPA They frequently
target the fears of mothers of newborn infants, but also allege a wide variety of other health threats, including denial of
a healthy sex life for men and women.
In the same fashion that the global warming hoax was spread and maintained by a campaign that asserted that
everything from frizzy hair to blizzards was the result of a dramatic warming cycle which was either happening or
predicted to happen, the effort to ban BPA uses the same technique.
The campaign is pursued by a coalition of environmentalist and consumer activist groups that depend on such scare
campaigns to maintain funding and secure members who can be relied upon to ignore or reject the science that disputes
such campaigns.
In May, 2011, the Miami Herald published what read like a news release by the Natural Resources Defense
Council, a news release asserting:
“Bisphenal-A, associated with obesity, lower
sperm counts and pre-cancerous changes in
the body, is found in the bodies of 90 percent
of Americans. Now a study shows that you
can halve your levels of BPA and other
chemicals within three days through a change
in diet.”
Three distinct “scares” are captured in this news release, all aimed at fears regarding health, but none of them reflect
the fact that trace amounts of BPA are routinely excreted and thus poses no threat. It also fails to reveal that the
“studies” always involve administering large amounts of BPA to laboratory mice in a fashion that does not reflect
actual exposure.
The ultimate target of the anti-BPA campaign is the widespread use of plastic containers of food and liquids, along
with its use to line the insides of metal cans for that purpose.
From its earliest origins, the environmentalist movement has sought to ban chemicals in general and plastic in
particylar, even though plastic has transformed and enhanced life around the world. In the U.S.A., the average life
expectancy during the last century rose from thirty-seven years in 1900 to the current seventy-eight years!
Earlier this year, the German Society of Toxicology released a review of more than five thousand previous studies
of BPA exposure that concluded that BPA “exposure represents no noteworthy risk to the health of the human
population, including newborns and babies.” Researchers concluded that BPA is neither mutagenic nor likely to be
a carcinogen.
This, however, has not deterred the constant repetition of lies asserting that BPA is a health threat, nor a variety of
efforts, including proposed state bans on the use of BPA. In April, 2011, the Competitive Enterprise Institute
released a 14-page report that included three pages of intensely documented notes, that refuted efforts by the
Maryland Legislature to ban infant formula and baby food packaging that contains more than 0.5 parts per billion
(ppb) of BPA.
“In public policy, bad ideas have an unfortunate tendency to spread,” said Dr. Angela Logomasini, PhD. Efforts in
Maine, Maryland, and even in Congress to ban BPA portend a host of food-born diseases and even death if such
bans continue to be enacted.
The source of these bans is the environmentalist movement that first came to public notice when they succeeded in
getting DDT banned. The result has been a rise in malarial deaths in nations that followed suit and in the swift
explosion of the bed bug plague in the U.S.A.
So vast have been the campaigns against the beneficial chemicals which protect human health that a word was
coined to identify the phenomenon — chemophobia. It is an irrational fear of chemicals when, in fact, the human
body is a chemical factory, producing chemicals for digestion, hormones and other functions, all the while cleaning
the body of chemicals it rejects.
Simple common sense suggests that parts-per-billion of any substance cannot possibly pose a risk or threat.
In his book, The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment, published
by the Cato Institute, author Indur M. Goklany, wrote:
“In keeping with its origins of technological skepticism,
the precautionary principle has also been increasingly
invoked as justification, among other things, for
international controls, if not outright bans, on various
technologies, which — despite substantial benefits to
humanity and, in some cases, to certain aspects of the
environment — could worsen other aspects of the
environment or public health.”
At the heart of environmentalism is the core belief that humans are endangering the Earth by the use of the
remarkable technologies that have been developed in the past century.
That is why, by spreading lies about sperm counts, endocrine disruption, and non-existent threats to infants and
adults via plastic and metal containers of food and liquids, the ultimate agenda to reduce the worldwide human
population is central to the campaign against the use of BPA.
There are no feasible substitutes for BPA. Banning it will guarantee the people will die.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Science, Ethics, & Human Health:
Human Health & Public Policy
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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