There has never been a time in all of human history, or even the history of life on earth, in which food hasn't contained chemicals.

Just because a chemical found in an edible thing that but also found in another inedible thing that doesn't mean we should freak out. Everything is chemicals. The amounts and how they are combined determine the freak out level you should apply to it. Science, it's your friend.

No. It's the direct result of the fact that EVERYTHING IS GODDAMN MADE OF CHEMICALS GODDAMNIT. Just because it has a name that sounds scary and science-y and is also used for other things doesn't necessarily make it bad. There's plenty of food products (wheat and corn and animal byproducts) that are also used in…

But then how are we supposed to scare the shit out of people for profit (read: pageviews)?

Water from a garden hose is great when you're really thirsty.

Yep. Just because something is a "chemical" or "artificially made" doesn't automatically mean it isn't safe for human consumption. The whole "this thing is found in yoga mats" stuff is stupid and alarmist.

You know what other chemical is used food and yoga mats?

People say this every time Jezebel posts an article like this, but this sort of fear-mongering, ignorant science writing is terrible, and you should really have someone who at least is somewhat interested in science to write science articles.

This is such a distortion of the truth.

Everything you eat contains "chemicals" found in yoga mats. YOU contain "chemicals" found in yoga mats.
CSPI tends to be very reactive, and if even they aren't calling for the wholesale removal, then it's not a big deal. Europeans have ridiculous limitations on food ingredients, so something being "banned in Europe" is…

Oh, no no no. See, while 14 women have been executed since 1976, 63 people total have been executed since 2010 in Texas. Don't forget that women are fragile little flowers who need to be put on a pedestal and protected from all of the evils of the world (this includes women who are themselves "evils of the world")! …

Oh for fuck's sake, would you guys please give it a rest? She wasn't running fucking wind sprints for days at a time, she was walking on a treadmill. Lots of people walk all day at work. Do you guys all want to pile on my mailman? He walks all day too. My son's teacher has a yoga ball instead of a desk chair. Can I…

If she's happy, I'm happy for her. I'm not her doctor and I have no idea if she's healthy or not. All I can comment on is how proud of herself she looks and how big and genuine her smile here is.

This isn't an accurate picture of executive compensation. She is paid less because it is her first year. Akerson was paid "only" $2.53m in his first year, 2010. Barra is paid substantially more in her first year as CEO than her male predecessor.

I think this concept is something English/Liberal Arts majors just can't comprehend. Policies like these aren't written to be creative intellectual expressions of self and individuality - they're not intended to be anyone's intellectual property. They're there to establish best practices and share information between…

Pretty much all I'm getting from this article and the comments is that concern trolling someone's body/weight is totally fine as long as everyone agrees that she Much. Too. Thin. 'Kay.

I had thought that the difficulties with the male pill were because the male hormonal patterns don't lend themselves to switching off fertility without drastic side effects?

It's pretty limited too, because you don't get a lot of pieces and there's not that many ways to assemble them. For the same price you can get a box of Tinker Toys with 10 times as many pieces in it and get a lot more creative. And Tinker Toys ALSO have girls on the box.

Do you know what it doesn't feature, though? Their product. And that's because while their marketing is genius, their product is subpar. It's a not very interesting building toy in which you have to thread ribbons through things to turn spools. The amazon reviews have hundreds of complaints of the handles breaking…

Although I find that "joke" to be extremely tasteless, I just can't bring myself to get incensed over it. It's a person that works for a huge porn house, catering to the kind of men that follow their website in social media without a trace of embarrassment.