death by odds and plastic

Today I learned that alcohol will kill you, but only by raising your risk of colon and liver cancer by 20% while decreasing your heart attack risk. (Note that we are not stooping to the level of the article by saying it increases the risk by a fifth.) In that I'd rather have a heart attack than screw around with chemotherapy, I'd better start drinking.

But not out of plastic bottles. The FDA decided that maybe they should look at all the studies on bisphenol A instead of just the two long-term ones funded by the plastics industry, and thus, maybe bisphenol A will kill you. If the FDA is worrying about it, it'll definitely kill you.