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How to respond to "Everything causes cancer"

  • 1.  How to respond to "Everything causes cancer"

    Posted 10-17-2007 09:11
    Hello friends:

    Lately I am finding that when discussing issues about externalities
    and specifically organizations that knowingly produce products with
    cancer causing agents in them (ie: cosmetics), business students often
    reply with "well everything causes cancer now."

    For example, I have shown interviews by Dr. Epstein (he was in the
    corporation) about various products that are dangerous (or potentially
    dangerous) to society. Yet students seem to defend the actions of
    these organizations with the sentences like "it depends on how much
    led is in the product" or "everything causes cancer these days."

    Anybody have any ideas of how to politely respond to that? I know what
    I could say, but I don't because I can't get it out without making the
    student feel demoralized.

    Thanks for your thoughts.

    Scott


    --
    Scott R. Colwell, Ph.D.
    University of Guelph
    College of Management and Economics
    Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
    http://www.uoguelph.ca/~scolwell/

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