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Hot water is a known carcinogenic.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...

It's there, in the statistics. The thing is, the risks of eating meat or drinking hot espressos are like national lottery kind of probabilities. Not like asbestos or carbon particles, wich have more like rock paper scissor kind of probabilities.

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You are trying to make a strawman by phrasing it as an exaggerated risk.

You can instead go check the probabilities or read scientific documentation and you'll find that both fluid intake at very high temperature and meat consumption have been reported as significant carcinogenics in many papers on publications with high impact factors.

You can search on Scholar or ask your GP. No need to be dishonest on HN.

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