This news should only trouble worms

By ACSH Staff — Nov 09, 2010
Against our best efforts, the newest BPA headline and its accompanying “study” managed to worm its way into today’s Dispatch, but only as an example of the utterly absurd. “Bisphenol A linked to sterility in roundworm,” Canada’s CBC News tells us. But the study wasn’t a complete waste of time and money — some of us got a good laugh out of it. “I only wonder how much federal money — that’s your tax money, by the way — went towards this study.

Against our best efforts, the newest BPA headline and its accompanying “study” managed to worm its way into today’s Dispatch, but only as an example of the utterly absurd. “Bisphenol A linked to sterility in roundworm,” Canada’s CBC News tells us. But the study wasn’t a complete waste of time and money — some of us got a good laugh out of it.

“I only wonder how much federal money — that’s your tax money, by the way — went towards this study. I personally would be more concerned about the effect on square worms,” ACSH’s Dr. Josh Bloom jokes.

“Well that’s the trouble: Bisphenol A turns roundworms square. I guess it’s hip to be square,” quips ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross.

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