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c_hagau

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c_hagau··on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
As stated by a sibling comment, at least the carcinogenicity part isn't true. Unfortunately, even nicotine gum should be carcinogenic (and is of course not intended to be used for consumption besides of alleviating withdrawal effects).

Presence of the Carcinogen N′-Nitrosonornicotine in Saliva of E-cigarette Users: <https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.8b00089>

c_hagau··on How much EU is in DNS4EU?
https://mailbox.org is hosted entirely in Germany and, at least in my experience, has been absolutely rock solid. It's also very affordable for private use. No Google, no AWS, no Cloudflare. (I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.)
c_hagau··on Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
Published in the "Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine", "The leading peer-reviewed journal providing scientific research for the evaluation and integration of complementary medicine into mainstream medical practice."

"Integrative and Complementary Medicine" is a fancy way of saying quackery.

Also, the video you linked to is on a channel run by a person describing himself as "a certified functional medicine practitioner & naturopathic nutritional therapist [..]. He enjoys making videos on a wide variety of health-related topics ranging from nutritional biochemistry to circadian biology, animal-based nutrition, and the dangers of electromagnetic radiation."

No further questions, your honor.

c_hagau··on ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors
Clearing the twitter.com cookie worked for me.