If Teflon doesn’t get us, TV will
A chemical in Teflon may cause cancer, according to the EPA (which evinces a sudden willingness to maybe actually Protect us).
Here’s how the part of GE that makes TV news reports the story:
WASHINGTON - With five kids, it seems Barbara Andrukonis always has something cooking in a pan. But it’s the chemical compound used to make the pan’s Teflon coating that has her — and an EPA panel — concerned.
“I think that anything that sort of isn’t the way that nature made it has to have some type of problem with it for us humans,” says Andrukonis.
Why begin the story with a ridiculous, irrelevant quote? To connect with our world, of course. NBC’s Brian Williams understands the NASCAR nation, you know. But honestly. Why not first tell us what scientists think about this danger, rather than some woman who’s only comfortable cooking with rocks.