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brewmoon t1_iu4k4ja wrote

Reply to comment by 685327593 in ELI5: Why does it seem as if most every day use items have carcinogens or other chemicals that can harm or kill you? by thedl894

Exactly. What no ones seems to understand is that it' the dose that makes the poison. Even water can kill if you drink too much of it.

The thing about the studies that are done, is that they give extremely large doses to the subjects which is very improbable that a human would consume that quantity.

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eloel- t1_iu4mavx wrote

>Even water can kill if you drink too much of it.

This is true! Arsenic's lethal dose is much, much lower than water's, but I guess they're both just poison at the right dose so they must be the same thing.

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