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The only thing that I’ve heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. So the worst case is some women may have little beards.

— Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), quoted by the Bangor Daily News, arguing there “hasn’t been any science” that suggests a problem with the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), and apparently confusing the female hormone estrogen with the male hormone testosterone.

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