California May Ban Paper Receipts Based on Junk Science
Feb 26 2019
Now California moonbats want to ban paper receipts. The proposed ban is emblematic of the dictates of the environmentally deranged nanny state Left in that it is based on debunked junk science:
One reason offered for the ban is to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. The other is to reduce public exposure to bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical used to coat receipts.
https://moonbattery.com/california-may-ban-paper-receipts-based-on-junk-science/Reducing carbon dioxide can be used as a pretext to restrict literally any activity. However, the politically contrived notion that CO2 emissions are somehow harmful has been debunked. The same goes for BPA.
The activist authors of the 1996 book Our Stolen Future (foreword by Al Gore) denounced BPA for allegedly having the capacity to disrupt human hormonal systems. Later that year, a Tulane study was hyped to the skies for making endocrine disrupter claims. The study turned out to be bogus:
