Ames Test - Carcinogens and Natural foods

"If you eat natural foods do it because you like the flavor, don't do it because you think you're avoiding carcinogens, if anything it's just the opposite."

This is an excerpt from
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6025887559771837885
Physics 10 - Lecture 06: Radioactivity II
by Professor Richard A. Muller of Berkeley.

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[faolitaruna]

It's discusting how people use video comments tosell their miracle therapies. I think they search for tags like "carcinogens" and then pastes spam.

[ThePoisonSword]

This guy is professor Richard A. Muller, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in physics and other related topics, this particular lecture is for "Future leaders of America", or something along those lines (check the link in the video description just to be sure).

Now that you mention it, it does sound a bit like propaganda, but all of his facts are reasonable and sound, and there are other lines of evidence pointing to similar conclusions.

[gdawg48]

who is this guy? he rocks!

[Aerosmithism]

Gosh, I never looked at it that way.

there is no natural way out

[dabigplaya2389]

Great professor. Wish I had him when I was an undergrad!

[michalchik]

Synthetic insecticides may or may not be worse, part of the problem is that synthetic pesticides do not primarily work by mutagenesis like many natural ones to. They are neurotoxins (organophosphates, pyrethrins, DDT, carbamates), endocrine disruptors (juvenile hormones).

[SkullRipper2247]

i started to watch to this video because i had to do my coursework about carcinogens and after watching all of it,all of this video,instead of being bored staring at my monitor i am actualy pretty interested,who knew that science could be interesting at times.

[SigmaXVirus]

People in this page don't know what "chemical" means.

Fucking propaganda.

[Kwalk014]

@tmassays

It's called the Ames test.

[jbrown677]

Thanks alot...My bio prof. failed miserably in describing such a simple yet ingenious test.

[tmassays]

On top of chemical sprays, there are chemical fertilizers.