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safety of BGH. How many Americans realize that Europeans consider our meat tainted by the hormones fed to the animals? Is this an opinion based on poor research fueled by anti-Americanism or good research suppressed in the States?
Non profit groups also have agendas. For example, some groups that want to prevent unwanted pregnancy encourage condom use. Condoms have a good track record of preventing pregnancy. What condoms do not seem to do well is prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease. This information is not well publicized by these groups because they are concerned people will be less likely to use a condom. If you research AIDS prevention, you will find studies that say condoms are good at preventing the disease and studies that indicate the virus can pass through pores in the latex. As a result, the consumer is left to wonder about the safety of many products.

Scientists are not being given enough research dollars to study the safety of everyday products under real world conditions. They are not being asked to research the types of questions consumers have. This leaves consumers in the position of having to ask: Who funded the research on a product? Do they have a financial reason to gloss over possible problems with a product? Is the ideology of the group funding the research such that they might want a less that perfect product to be widely used because to them, it serves the "greater good of society"? the "science" that is producing consumer product safety reports today is only as good as the questions being asked by those who fund the research.

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