the.com/carcinogen
Anything that bribes your cells to stop reading the instructions and start improvising.
means A substance or agent capable of causing cancer by damaging DNA or disrupting normal cell regulation.
from Built from Greek 'karkinos' (crab) plus '-gen' (producer, from 'genes,' born/produced). The crab link traces to ancient physicians — most famously Hippocrates and later Galen — who thought tumors with their swollen, radiating veins looked like a crab's body and legs, so they named them 'karkinos.' Add the suffix that gives us 'oxygen' and 'hydrogen,' and a 'carcinogen' is literally a 'crab-producer' — something that generates that crab-shaped disease.
- worst offender
- sunlight outranks most chemicals you fear
- dose matters
- even water poisons you at high enough dose
- bacon irony
- processed meat shares a category with plutonium, not its risk level
- grading system
- IARC ranks certainty of harm, not how deadly it is