Today In Post-Literacy In The Conceited And College-Credentialed

Well, the example of Simels' daily idiocy and those who concur proves a few of my claims:

A. The Eschaton crew, conceited as they are college-credentialed, don't or, perhaps, have lost the ability to read.  

B. They don't think very clearly. 

C. They believe what Simels says which is a sure sign of 1. not caring about the truth because 2. he's an habitual liar and, so, 3. being gullible.

The claim of Simps is that I have a "theory that tattoo ink causes cancer" that is refuted by the CNN article linked to.  First, I never stated such a theory, the only thing that came up in a search of my archive was this post in which I speculated that the who-knows-what that tattoo artists are injecting into people could very well give them cancer.  I said:

The story makes me wonder about the faith people put in people they pay for things, the faith that a commercial company would be selling accurate and well-understood genetic testing, well done, and the faith that so many people put in tattoo artistes to not be injecting them with potential poisons and the clearly inadequate, at times criminally irresponsible safety-testing industry and the corrupted government agencies that permit ill-tested things to be injected into us, fed to us, to enter into us and our environment.  Not to mention the blatantly corrupt state governments that permit a lot of that under our idiotic federal system.

You would think that someone scared enough of their own genes to spend two-hundred bucks on a genetic test of dubious worth would have at least given as much thought to getting tattooed as that.  I don't know what you do about it once it's been done.  Even the removal of it would, I believe, leave the chemicals in your body.  I expect any day now we'll get reports on cancer caused by people getting large tats, which I am told are called "sleeves". 

As far as I can see, that's what I've said on the subject, though I pointed out to a couple of my nieces and a friend of theirs who got tattoos pretty much the same thing. I wrote that in 2018.

And, sorry, Simps, Chicago Dyke, and Grandmere Poisson, that's not my theory, it's an obvious and documented potential problem with the largely unsupervised, poorly regulated and criminally irresponsibly regulated market in tattoos (let me guess, you gals got tats to make you feel like you're still groovy, I suspect Simps didn't because he figures he's the grooviest, already.).   Here's a passage from an article from Scientific American, October 2011 that I'd read before I wrote that.

Helen Suh MacIntosh, a professor in environmental health at Harvard University and a columnist for the website, Treehugger, reports that as a result of a 2007 lawsuit brought by the American Environmental Safety Institute (AESI), two of the leading tattoo ink manufacturers must now place warning labels on their product containers, catalogs and websites explaining that “inks contain many heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and others” and that the ingredients have been linked to cancer and birth defects. 

Rereading that in response to your upvotes for Simps' comment, did your mothers have tats? 

And the carcinogenicity of the chemicals in tattoo ink isn't the only cancer risk involved, some of that comes from infections that are a known risk of the unregulated tattoo market.

Of course, exposure to mercury and other heavy metals is hardly the only risk involved with getting a tattoo. The term tattoo itself means to puncture the skin. Tattoo ink is placed via needles into the dermis layer of the skin, where it remains permanently (although some colors will fade over time). Some people have reported sensitivity springing up even years after they first got their tattoo; also, medical MRIs can cause tattoos to burn or sting as the heavy metals in the ink are affected by the test’s magnetism.

Beyond the long term risks of walking around with heavy metals injected into your body’s largest organ (the skin), getting a tattoo in and of itself can be risky business. If the tattoo parlor’s needles and equipment aren’t properly sterilized in an autoclave between customers, you could be exposing yourself to hepatitis B or C, tuberculosis, mycobacterium, syphilis, malaria, HIV or even leprosy.

As to the article  at CNN that led to Simp's comment, it doesn't say anything about tattoos, it mentions that the decrease in cancer deaths - from what I can see it doesn't really mention a decrease in cancers but only cancer deaths -  may be due, among other things, to decreases in the number of people who smoke and better treatment for cancer, perhaps, I wonder, if that might not be due in no small part to the ACA being passed by the Democrats.

Clearly none of them read what it said at the link. 

I would not expect that the groovy geezers of Eschaton to know much about how hard it was for scientists to overcome industry propaganda to establish that smoking caused cancer,  it took a lot longer than the tattoo fad was revived so spectacularly.  And, as I pointed out, who knows what inks and dyes people are getting injected with and what health consequences there will be from it in the same time frames that it can take for smoking to produce lung cancer and other cancers.  The junk they're putting into peoples largest organ, the skin, ain't the stuff your ol' grandad's tattoo was made of (my grandparents and parents didn't have them, though my mother's brother got one when he was drunk in the army, it drifted and looked really disturbing by the time I saw it). 

You people make me think that going to college in our generation must have figured as a risk factor for functional illiteracy and stupidity.  Though the ever lasting teenage hood that you desperately hold on to is probably more of an explanation.  Pop kulcha makes you stupid.  Voluntarily retarded.

Update:  Simels is claiming, and I quote (and that ain't gonna happen very often anymore)  . At this point in time. the vast majority of the American people -- aged between teenage something and 65/70, all have multiple tattoos. We're talking about going back to the fucking 80s. If this was gonna be a public health crisis, WE WOULD FUCKING KNOW IT BY NOW.

Typical of Simps and the "Brain Trust" (The Eschatot community really do call the Eschatots of Eschaton that) he doesn't give a citation.  I asked google and got this:

Tattoos have become more common over the past couple of decades. A Harris poll in 2012 found that 1 out of every 5 adults — 21 percent — has at least one tattoo. An earlier Pew Research Center study found that the number was closer to 40 percent among those ages 18 to 29.

I would guess that 20% counts as "a vast majority" if your grasp of fifth-grade math is half-vast.  

As for that figure on younger people, the Pew surveys in what was their most recent article I found on it said:

Nearly four in 10 people born after 1980 have a tattoo and one in four have a piercing some place other than an earlobe, the Pew Research Center has reported. (The Pew Charitable Trusts funds both the center and Stateline.)

So even then, the "vast majority"  of young'uns (in a Simels time frame) is well under 50%.  Not only are the Brain Trusters illiterate, they are math deficient.  As I recall Grandmere Poisson teaches math at some college or other, perhaps she can explain it to Simps.  While she's at it she might work on his inability to understand how time works, that some things come after other things and things that come after can't cause the things that happen before them to happen.  He really doesn't understand that.  I'd go on looking up the proof he's pulling it from the same place he pulls everything else, but why bother?

As to the amount of time it would take for health consequences to develop through any of the who knows what the hell is in those metallic and other new inks - and who knows how many of them have been adequately tested for safety?  I doubt many of them have.  Who can tell when they will generate enough health consequences for coroners and doctors to notice?  Look how long it took for them to come up with solid evidence that tobacco caused cancer to the level to gain wide acceptance.   And that was only one substance, who knows how many dozens or hundreds or thousands of inks or dyes or whatever people are getting injected into them.  

Conceit among the college-credentialed play-lefties seems to be directly related to how stupid they are.   And the ones who troll me are incredibly conceited. 

Update 2:  I really can't be too worried about what someone who calls themselves "Mothra" thinks about what I wrote when they didn't read what I wrote.  Opinions about something they haven't read comprise a good part of the contents of Duncan Black's blog that he allows his wheezers and geezers to pretty much write on the fly.  As I noted at the beginning, the Eschatots are post-literate with a handful of exceptions.