chemicals have gotten a bad name
recently and today we try to avoid them
at all costs and go natural but is this
necessary hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with dr. Joe schwarcz about the
chemistry of our daily lives well first
of all the basic definition of chemistry
just to get us started is that is a
study of matter and the changes that
matter under goals which means it’s the
study of everything because matter is
anything that occupies space in hazmats
whether we’re talking about cooking or
cosmetics or drugs were talking
chemistry why would you say the idea of
chemicals is basically frowned upon
today well unfortunately the word
chemical has as at least in the lay
press be made to be synonymous with
toxin poison etc which is very
unfortunate because chemicals are just
the building blocks of matter they don’t
make any decisions they’re not good or
bad it’s all a question of how we use
them what would you say is the most
common myth about chemistry I think the
single most pervasive myth is that
natural substances are somehow superior
to synthetic whether or not anything is
dangerous or not or effective or not
depends on what it is on what the
molecular structure is on how we studied
at what we know about it not its origin
there are all kinds of substances that
are naturally occurring which are
decidedly dangerous I mean you know
start with snake venom and scorpion
venom and and poison ivy these are all
natural for some perfectly dangerous
what are some chemicals that you would
say have unfairly gotten a bad
reputation I would say the phthalates
which are substances that are used in
plastics to make them soft and pliable
and these have been in the news a great
deal recently because of papers
published in scientific literature
linking gets to a shortened in or
genital distance in
in rodents so people start to have these
visions of using these products and
having their orifices merge into one
what we need to point out here is that
the the human is not a giant rat neither
is the human a giant test tube and the
amount of phthalates that were exposed
to in our daily life is unlikely to have
the same kind of effect as we’ve seen
with huge doses in rats can we guarantee
that there’s no possibility of long-term
effect of course not because science can
never prove a negative you can’t prove
that something cannot happen but you
make decisions based on the best
available evidence at any time thank you
very much thanks
recently and today we try to avoid them
at all costs and go natural but is this
necessary hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with dr. Joe schwarcz about the
chemistry of our daily lives well first
of all the basic definition of chemistry
just to get us started is that is a
study of matter and the changes that
matter under goals which means it’s the
study of everything because matter is
anything that occupies space in hazmats
whether we’re talking about cooking or
cosmetics or drugs were talking
chemistry why would you say the idea of
chemicals is basically frowned upon
today well unfortunately the word
chemical has as at least in the lay
press be made to be synonymous with
toxin poison etc which is very
unfortunate because chemicals are just
the building blocks of matter they don’t
make any decisions they’re not good or
bad it’s all a question of how we use
them what would you say is the most
common myth about chemistry I think the
single most pervasive myth is that
natural substances are somehow superior
to synthetic whether or not anything is
dangerous or not or effective or not
depends on what it is on what the
molecular structure is on how we studied
at what we know about it not its origin
there are all kinds of substances that
are naturally occurring which are
decidedly dangerous I mean you know
start with snake venom and scorpion
venom and and poison ivy these are all
natural for some perfectly dangerous
what are some chemicals that you would
say have unfairly gotten a bad
reputation I would say the phthalates
which are substances that are used in
plastics to make them soft and pliable
and these have been in the news a great
deal recently because of papers
published in scientific literature
linking gets to a shortened in or
genital distance in
in rodents so people start to have these
visions of using these products and
having their orifices merge into one
what we need to point out here is that
the the human is not a giant rat neither
is the human a giant test tube and the
amount of phthalates that were exposed
to in our daily life is unlikely to have
the same kind of effect as we’ve seen
with huge doses in rats can we guarantee
that there’s no possibility of long-term
effect of course not because science can
never prove a negative you can’t prove
that something cannot happen but you
make decisions based on the best
available evidence at any time thank you
very much thanks
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