From time to time, this writer has been known to provide you with some of the things that cults made up of scientists are doing to innocent little creatures. It's not everywhere you can get an unbiased and fair report of what is happening in the world of scientific research.
There was an artificial sweetener on the market in the USA at one time long before the turn of the century called cyclamate. The pesky scientists back then fed mice more cyclamate than any person could have in several lifetimes, and the mice developed bladder cancer and shrunken testicles. Cyclamate was banned by the FDA in the U.S.
It's time to ban soy. Male mice with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, from which 1 in 500 American males suffer, tended to develop heart failure after being fed a soy-based diet as opposed to a milk-protein-based diet. I cite as precedent for this proposed ban on soy products the fact that the FDA banned cyclamates, despite a lack of supporting studies, because of its deleterious effect on male mice.
And to all of the men out there whose significant others are asking them to switch to soyburgers, tofu, and soybean juice (aka "soymilk"): Don't be paranoid ... yet. Although researchers were "shocked" and "astonished" by the results of their study, they stopped short of concluding that real men should not eat soy. "It would be a huge extrapolation to say people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy shouldn't eat soy," said Leslie Leinwand, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology of the University of Colorado.
Oh ... by the way, guys, Dr. Leinwand is a woman.
Posted by Bill at January 9, 2006 01:24 PMSaccharine was thought to be bad, until people realized that the amounts of saccharine being fed to mice was far in excess of the proportion any human would eat in a day.
In other words, if you eat a pound of saccharine every day for thirty years, chances are good that you will develop prostrate cancer....
Posted by: Joel Sax at January 9, 2006 05:32 PM