Let The Lying Begin
Comment on: Calif. regulators warn of pot's cancer capability at 7/4/2009 1:38 PM EDT
'Though not all the studies showed a link, regulators found that "marijuana smoke was clearly shown, through scientifically valid testing according to generally accepted principles, to cause cancer," according to an agency statement.'
This is the key sentence of the story, it shows how that agency in Ca. misrepresented the facts. If the agency's statement had ended with: "to contain carcinogens," instead of "to cause cancer," the statement would've been true.
Kudos to NPR for making that distinction clear in the story.
I smell a payoff from big pharma to some flunkie(s) at California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
This will give ammunition to the Bill O'Reillys of this world to quote the statement, leaving out the meat of the story while stressing that it comes from Ca.
Let the lying begin.
This is the key sentence of the story, it shows how that agency in Ca. misrepresented the facts. If the agency's statement had ended with: "to contain carcinogens," instead of "to cause cancer," the statement would've been true.
Kudos to NPR for making that distinction clear in the story.
I smell a payoff from big pharma to some flunkie(s) at California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
This will give ammunition to the Bill O'Reillys of this world to quote the statement, leaving out the meat of the story while stressing that it comes from Ca.
Let the lying begin.
posted by Unknown at 7/08/2009 06:24:00 PM
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