<story><title>&apos;New car smell&apos; is the scent of carcinogens</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-minute-commute-puts-you-at-risk-of-unacceptably-high-levels-of-carcinogens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Peanuts are a great example. I am not allergic to peanuts myself, but I avoid eating them.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know why people become allergic to them, but there must be something in some peanuts which sets off their immune system.</text></item><item><author>ramblerman</author><text>Ssome people are allergic to peanuts, doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a well grounded theory.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>I call it the canary system. Some people are more sensitive than others, but we&amp;#x27;re all being harmed with it.&lt;p&gt;For my part, I pay attention to what others are sensitive to and avoid it as well.&lt;p&gt;If someone else has trouble coping with a substance but I&amp;#x27;m &amp;quot;fine&amp;quot;, that probably means that underneath my constituents are still struggling to deal with it and just not telling me.</text></item><item><author>LargoLasskhyfv</author><text>It &lt;i&gt;IS&lt;/i&gt; the same category when it makes you suffer. Be it sneezes, running nose, coughing, swelling throat, burning eyes, sometimes itching skin, feeling unwell in general after being in contact with or near &lt;i&gt;that stuff&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Maybe our bodies have different tresholds for exposure to &lt;i&gt;that stuff&lt;/i&gt;, and after oversaturating them for some time, there is no buffer available anymore?&lt;p&gt;Resulting in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>that&amp;#x27;s because you call it &amp;quot;this stuff&amp;quot; and bundle everything from new cars to soap into the same category.  So you&amp;#x27;re just sensitive to every industrial material?  it&amp;#x27;s hard to take seriously.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Yeah, it is horrifying to think about how much air pollution we inflict upon ourselves. It&amp;#x27;s very hard to stop even in a two-person household, because so many of the &amp;quot;products&amp;quot; most people in the Western world are used to buying and using since an early age are violators. I am blessed with being quite sensitive to most of them, so it&amp;#x27;s an endless struggle with partners and cohabitants.&lt;p&gt;Basically anything bought new has it: furniture, clothes, cars, anything plastic, dyed, glued, particleboard.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Cleaning&amp;quot; products: sprays, detergents, most &amp;quot;soaps&amp;quot;, shampoos, creams, conditioners, have this type of crap in them.&lt;p&gt;Even most stuff which claims to be &amp;quot;eco-friendly&amp;quot; is bullshit, and has all the same crap in it if you look at the ingredients.&lt;p&gt;And it feels like online there is a whole army of &amp;quot;rational scientific defenders&amp;quot; ready to jump into action anytime I mention it. It feels like there is a whole playbook for discrediting this type of comment, and calling into question how &amp;quot;scientific&amp;quot; it is, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Judgmentality</author><text>The true irony of this statement, and I want to emphasize I am not a doctor, is that you are more likely to &lt;i&gt;cause&lt;/i&gt; a peanut allergy by avoiding it!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;directorsblog.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;peanut-allergy-early-exposure-is-key-to-prevention&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;directorsblog.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;peanut-allergy-earl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similar to germ theory, some exposure is actually good.</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;New car smell&apos; is the scent of carcinogens</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-minute-commute-puts-you-at-risk-of-unacceptably-high-levels-of-carcinogens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Peanuts are a great example. I am not allergic to peanuts myself, but I avoid eating them.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know why people become allergic to them, but there must be something in some peanuts which sets off their immune system.</text></item><item><author>ramblerman</author><text>Ssome people are allergic to peanuts, doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a well grounded theory.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>I call it the canary system. Some people are more sensitive than others, but we&amp;#x27;re all being harmed with it.&lt;p&gt;For my part, I pay attention to what others are sensitive to and avoid it as well.&lt;p&gt;If someone else has trouble coping with a substance but I&amp;#x27;m &amp;quot;fine&amp;quot;, that probably means that underneath my constituents are still struggling to deal with it and just not telling me.</text></item><item><author>LargoLasskhyfv</author><text>It &lt;i&gt;IS&lt;/i&gt; the same category when it makes you suffer. Be it sneezes, running nose, coughing, swelling throat, burning eyes, sometimes itching skin, feeling unwell in general after being in contact with or near &lt;i&gt;that stuff&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Maybe our bodies have different tresholds for exposure to &lt;i&gt;that stuff&lt;/i&gt;, and after oversaturating them for some time, there is no buffer available anymore?&lt;p&gt;Resulting in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>that&amp;#x27;s because you call it &amp;quot;this stuff&amp;quot; and bundle everything from new cars to soap into the same category.  So you&amp;#x27;re just sensitive to every industrial material?  it&amp;#x27;s hard to take seriously.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Yeah, it is horrifying to think about how much air pollution we inflict upon ourselves. It&amp;#x27;s very hard to stop even in a two-person household, because so many of the &amp;quot;products&amp;quot; most people in the Western world are used to buying and using since an early age are violators. I am blessed with being quite sensitive to most of them, so it&amp;#x27;s an endless struggle with partners and cohabitants.&lt;p&gt;Basically anything bought new has it: furniture, clothes, cars, anything plastic, dyed, glued, particleboard.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Cleaning&amp;quot; products: sprays, detergents, most &amp;quot;soaps&amp;quot;, shampoos, creams, conditioners, have this type of crap in them.&lt;p&gt;Even most stuff which claims to be &amp;quot;eco-friendly&amp;quot; is bullshit, and has all the same crap in it if you look at the ingredients.&lt;p&gt;And it feels like online there is a whole army of &amp;quot;rational scientific defenders&amp;quot; ready to jump into action anytime I mention it. It feels like there is a whole playbook for discrediting this type of comment, and calling into question how &amp;quot;scientific&amp;quot; it is, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbarberu</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not how allergies work. People with allergies get an immune reaction to a harmless compound.</text></comment>