There was a lot more of that hazardous carcinogenic stuff 50 years ago though. Baby cribs used to be made from asbestos. Every other person was a smoker. Houses were painted with lead. This trend is very very recent.
there would be a clear geographic distribution of cancers along major highways vs rural areas with little traffic
which may be happening? not sure if anyone actually tried making a survey along those lines yet; I think currently most of the time a geographic distrubution of cancers is assessed to find chemical leaks e.g. superfund sites
Yes but they'll get other things technically because of it.
For example, you're more likely to get dementia if you had the HPV vaccine vs if you never had HPV in the first place. Of course, it's not trivial to avoid getting HPV in the first place... You'd have to basically only have one partner and you'd have to have been their only partner as well.. but for all the health conscious talk you see, you rarely see that recommended these days.
Nah, i got HPV, the bad version, the one that create "huge buttons" (don't have the english word) on your thighs for 3-5 years from a girl who was basically a virgin, but was a huge swimmer/fencer/horserider. We don't know where it came from, and i was abstinent for like 2 years prior to that.
> Of course, it's not trivial to avoid getting HPV in the first place... You'd have to basically only have one partner and you'd have to have been their only partner as well.
It's better to have no partner at all than to hope for the above condition to be true.
