Response to “Does Bisphenol-A Cause Miscarriages?”

At around the same time that the Guardian reported on a Japanese study liking Bisphenol-A to miscarriages, ourstolenfuture.org, a website devoted to exposing the perceived evils of Bisphenol-A, did a similar report. While the website has very clear motives and views, its report on the study was fairly impartial. In fact, Our Stolen Future gave more facts about the study than did the Guardian.

While one might have expected ourstolenfuture.org’s analysis of the article to interpret the results of the experiment as definitive evidence for their cause, the website took a more resigned approach. The article acknowledged the small sample size of the experiment and that the results may have been incorrect. At the same time, it tried to discount this by using the results of experiments conducted on animals as evidence for the dangers of BPA. However, within their rigidly dogmatic theories, the ourstolenfuture.org made a very valid point:

“The possibility that BPA may be a cause of some percentage of these abortions opens the possibility that some cases of spontaneous abortion may be preventable through exposure reduction.”

Even if there is no solid, conclusive scientific evidence that Bisphenol-A is dangerous to the population of the world, perhaps governments should try to limit its use because the consequences would be too great if it actually were dangerous. Maybe the United States should impose EU-like regulations, which acknowledge the possible risk of Bisphenol-A without doing too much damage to businesses. The truth of the matter is that in the end, the most important concern should not be who is more correct, but the outcome with relation to human lives.