93% of Americans have glyphosate in their bodies - UC Cal

[NNadir]

127. Your evidence that you were "poisoned by pesticides" is what?

Are you a pathologist, a toxicologist, or an epidemiologist?

My son was born with a potentially catastrophic birth defect that had obvious cosmetic manifestations. Happily the only manifestation was just that, cosmetic, but it could have been much worse. (My son is now 21 and has just been admitted as a transfer student to a fairly prestigious school associated with his career choice.)

When he was an infant and a toddler, often people - rude people - would approach my wife and I in public settings to ask "What's that?" or "What caused that?" or "What did you do to cause that?"

Even ruder people would offer us their own speculations about what "caused that." These people, of course, were the most rude. In general my impression was that the that the people offering these unsolicited speculations were clearly the most ignorant and the least likely to have any kind of scientific knowledge. The less science they knew, the louder their mouths.

To avoid my son making negative associations with his appearance, we bit our tongues and answered, correctly, but politely and firmly, this answer, "we don't know."

As it happens, the cause of my son's condition was discovered, and published in 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It involved a clearly random genetic (somatic) event, and I'm quite sure now that all the people shooting off their mouths on subjects they know nothing about - "what caused that?" - were clueless.

From your tenor here, I'm sure you have no idea about what caused whatever symptoms you may have, but are merely speculating wildly. While I regret it if you are ill, I assure you that your loud assertions of this type will surely impact other human beings in a way that is decidedly not positive. As far as I'm concerned, you are doing monstrous harm to other people.

Despite the effects of your pernicious rhetoric, I certainly hope you will recover from whatever ails you and that you will have a pleasant week.