Questions tagged [environmental-health]
Use this tag for questions regarding physical, chemical and biological factors that may affect human health.
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Can a pedestal fan, with a UV lamp attached on the back and fine mesh attached on the front, catch mosquitoes?
Reddit's r/lifehacks has a post by user u/sovalente: a video where an electric fan is repurposed for catching mosquitoes:
Amazing anti-mosquito device: a net on a fan with attached UV light to the ...
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Is San Francisco's Chinatown contaminated with mercury from a 1901 "disinfection program"?
This one comes from Wikipedia's article Mercury(II) chloride, which cites Susan Craddock, "City of Plagues":
Between 1901 and 1904 the Marines Hospital Service quarantined and engaged in an ...
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Do fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field cause health problems? [closed]
CLAIM: Magnetic fluctuations caused by solar flares, known as "geomagnetic storms", cause health problems in humans.
Several studies have come out in an field known as "heliobiology&...
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Did the Covid vaccines lower fertility rates via causing infertility?
In this Slay News article, linked to by popular right-wing aggregator Off The Press:
According to independent journalist JD Rucker, the establishment media and their allies are ignoring the obvious. “...
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Does staying indoors protect you from wildfire smoke?
I’m in New York right now and I’m seeing a lot of news / government warnings to stay indoors due to the wildfire smoke.
For example: Stay indoors, mask up: Staying safe as ‘hazardous' smoke levels ...
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Am I drinking myself sick from the plastic in tea bags?
You’d probably be surprised to learn that most tea bags contain up to 25% plastic.
... says Green Child magazine, and thus
A cup of tea contains ... plastic ... at 16 micrograms per cup... plastic ...
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Can pressurized air directed on the skin cause an embolism?
At my workplace we are warned against using compressed air to blow dust of working clothes etc, except when a special nozzle is affixed to the to the hose, reducing the pressure of the released air.
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Do we unknowingly eat 5 grams of plastic per week?
I just saw a DW (Deutsche Welle the German public state own international broadcaster) short documentary on You-Tube named "How to avoid micro plastic in your food" and is about how much ...
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Does a 400ppm ambient CO2 increase result in a 21% decline in cognitive function "across all domains"?
Apparently VOCs and CO2 in a conventional building will make you half or around 3/4 as smart/performing as you are.
On average, cognitive scores were 61% higher on the Green building day and 101% ...
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Do beeswax candles "purify" the air?
It's a common claim on sites promoting beeswax candles over paraffin or soy candles that they "purify" the air and reduce allergies and asthma (Cleanup Expert,Ebeehoney, Pathways Arts, ...
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Does dry air promote the spreading of respiratory viruses better than wet air, ceteris paribus?
A DW article states that
Air humidity also influences the transmissibility of respiratory viruses. Once the pathogens have been expelled from the respiratory tract with a strong sneeze, they ...
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Do air-conditioning systems help to spread SARS-CoV-2?
Newshub in New Zealand reported on March 9, 2020:
Scientists in Singapore may have found a clue as to how so many people aboard cruise ship the Diamond Princess ended up getting infected with COVID-...
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Do long sessions of computer use damage the user's skin?
I believe that regularly spending long periods of time facing computers monitors while using them significantly damages the skin.
The Daily Mail reported in 2018:
According to [Rebecca Mason, skin ...
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Do some people take several weeks to adjust to the spring DST clock change?
In this proposal on the European Parliament website about Daylight Savings Time (DST), it is claimed that (emphasis mine):
Some studies indicate that summer-time arrangements could ...
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Are US sunscreens less effective due to FDA regulations?
A recent answer to the question Best sun protection for swimming on a sister site makes the claim "The US market version is hamstrung in order to pass FDA regulations" and expands with the ...
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