Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response

answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think if these effects were universal and as serious as the paper makes out, we’d have noticed them waaay sooner.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, it’s possible it has been a significant factor to weakend immune systems all along; it was just now that the connection/link with tattoo ink was identified. Not a scientist obviously, just spitballing.

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  • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And yet things like asbestos, lead, and smoking all took way longer than you’d expect (given they were a lot more universal).

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    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All three of your examples were known to cause ill effects for centuries. The ancient Romans knew the asbestos mines were killing their slaves. Their overuse during the 20th century was not due to ignorance but corporate lobbying and political complacency.

      The lobbyist play is to fund counter-studies to sow FUD even though the scientific consensus that [X Bad] is well established, because it gives an easy out for bought out politicians. However the tatoo lobby is certainly not one that I expect to be have the pull to fund FUD scientific studies to delay legislation, and if they are doing that it should be pretty easy to point to.

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And yet humans have been tattooing themselves since the dawn of recorded history - significantly longer than any of those other things were around before their harm became evident.

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• auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got a tattoo on my leg when I was 17.

  36 now and I’m the past year it’s gotten ridiculously itchy and bumpy and my skin is rejecting the ink and spitting it up in little spots.

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