Should I Be Afraid of BPA?

BPA has had some bad press, and now we’re all wondering: Is BPA bad for us? Michael Aranda goes into how we encounter BPA in our lives and how it affects us.

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[Master_Therion]

Fear of BPA is what got me to stop drinking from a baby bottle. Now I drink my Scotch and Brandy from a sippy-cup, like a big boy. ^_^

[johns]

I feel like the question wasn't really answered

[rolfy]

This video didn't mention the excessive amounts of BPA found in our oceans, due to sea waste slowly breaking down from sunlight over time. It's a topic definitely worth looking into!

[terrendously]

0:19 ... "And that hasn't caused the collapse of civilization, although 2016 might have come closed."
2020: Hold my beer...

[Caraxian]

2:05 "If the body suddenly detects a high dose, it knows something's up and wont respond" I feel like this is wrong...

[clairemoore]

Use of BPA in baby bottles is banned/unauthorized in Canada, the E.U., and the US. Something not addressed in this video is that when hard plastics are labelled as 'BPA free' they often contain a chemical such as BPS instead, which has similar estrogenic effect.

[noodlebamboo]

I'm really glad you made that last point, that we need to be careful in developing replacements/alternatives. It's not necessarily great to just eliminate a chemical from our lives if that means that something we know less about has to take its place.

[thetayz]

SciShow had to hop on the "Fuck 2016" train, huh?

[Disthron]

Weather the chemical is harmful or not, after the bullshit from tobacco, alcohol, coal and other lobbies, research like this will always have a suspicious air to them.

[davionaceae]

I always appreciate these articles that tell you how things have been found to cause issues, but don't hard-line one way or another. I'd much rather know how things can and could be hazardous in these cases, versus how they could be safe. Thank you for your approach to this video.

[FuZeBioNiiKzZ]

Doesn't it have a negative effect on some wildlife, causing sex disruption in certain turtles and caimans?

[ooops]

why are there immature jokes around this comment section

[PendragonDaGreat]

The problem quickly becomes the uninformed public being fearful of the word itself. At Target the other day, I saw glass bottles being advertised as "Now BPA Free", as in silicate glass that has never had BPA in it ever. "Still BPA Free" or simply "BPA Free" would be completely cool, but "Now BPA Free" is a problem.

[magus]

well plastic is why im fat now i know who to sue

[charlessmith]

In the 1970s, were there studies linking Bisphenol A to autism in babies?

A typical example is a baby drinking out of plastic bottles that had BPA in them and were already heated up. When you heat up BPA bottles, it is like releasing free radicals inside the bottle and this is what can lead to physical damage when you ingest stuff from heated BPA bottles.

I think I was exposed to these bottles when I was drinking milk as a baby, and 3 to 4 years after I was born, I was diagnosed with autism!!!

[JorgeCastillo-tcbq]

I been on construction for 5 years and I was diagnosed with low testosterone. At the age of 27 I have 270 I been eating on plastic containers every week day for the last 5 years and it may have cause it.

[angelic]

aaand this was banned in Europe like a decade ago

[fragmentalstew]

This is why I try to avoid eating or drinking out of plastic. I still do it, I just avoid it when it's not too much effort to do so. I also try to use bpa free plastic when I can, but I saw a study once that said the sometimes what replaces bpa van be worse.

[Ghostzy]

Well I've been drinking out of a glass Voss bottle for years now and I have a monbento lunch box which states it's BPA free, I never knew anything about BPA. I am always waiting for the 2nd coming of asbestos and we find out everyone has been getting ill from doing a something commonly known as okay.

[schplorgus]

vsauce vs veritasium vs scishow

who wins in a spit battle?