It was less than 100 years ago that we thought it was a good idea to (1) put lead in paint, (2) put asbestos in building materials, (3) put x-ray machines in shoe stores so people could casually look at their feet (learned this from a relative).
We are only a few generations away from some literal dark age shit.
Late in life he was disabled by polio. After inventing a system of ropes and pulleys to assist his aides in lifting him from his bed, he became entangled in it and died of strangulation.
He's almost a real-world version of Pratchett's Discworld inventor Bloody Stupid Johnson.
What's really sad is that this method isn't too far off from the way the pharma industry works today.
Sorry, but it seems you don’t actually know anything about diesels.
Diesel exhaust is a Group 1 carcinogen, which causes lung cancer and has a positive association with bladder cancer.[2][3][4][5][6] It contains several substances that are also listed individually as human carcinogens by the IARC.
And if it comes out of the exhaust ports on a dieeel engine is actual diesel exhaust.
All that aside, airosoled diesel still wouldn’t be something you’d want to inhale much of.
In the vein of: i know 98.5% of scientists agree X will harm me, my children, my loved ones and neighbors. The other 1.5% have questionable sponsors, but X is not yet illegal and costs half the price of X-alternative ... so i'm using it one last time. Anyway, if it was really that bad, the gov't would have banned it by now anyway, so ... and then i take another free plastic bag.
The way Americans may see that is the way Scandinavia sees lead pipes. I mean, flint was so many years ago, why haven’t you improved things?
I’d ask how it feels to be such a puppet of someone else’s game... but that would require some self awareness.
Sorry
Detroit ends it's contract with flint, flint moves to water from the flint river, change in water chemistry has disastrous effects (not just lead).
Are you saying instead of engineers screwing up the water treatment (failing to match new water to old) the city managers told them to let the water chemistry change? Do you have any evidence of that?
http://www.newsweek.com/pruitt-trump-asbestos-chemicals-trum...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-epa-allowing-asbestos-p...
Lead had a huge lobby during its heyday. The inventor of leaded fuel [1] would have exhibitions where he would sit and huff leaded fuel, pour it on his hands, and so on. And there was extensive corporate backed science arguing that it was all perfectly safe. Incidentally he's also the guy who invented CFCs, which also ended up banned. Interesting character!
lesson: interpreting corporate funded science inversely is sometimes a faster route to the truth than waiting for them to come around.
A good example is electromagnetic radiation. We know quite well the effects of specific wavelengths at defined intensity on living organisms. Some wavelengths are lethal at certain doses, some seem to have no visible effect. Given how ubiquitous radio communication is these days, one would think it's in our best interests to conduct large-scale studies on long-term effects of the wavelengths most commonly used on living cells. It would be tragic to discover the effects are there but because the related EMR is so widespread it's hard to correlate these factors in the population.
the in vitro data we have is uninspiring. you can prompt cells to lose viability if you expose them to EMR (radio from what i remember) in very contrived and artificial conditions with exposure far beyond what humans would absorb.
yeah, it probably would be better for you to not have all these waves bouncing around/through us. but i think it could be much worse.
While I agree that we shouldn't be wrapping every hot water pipe in asbestos and painting kids bikes with led paint there's got to be a more flexible middle ground between outright ban and allowing widespread use. Leaded brass plumbing fittings are everywhere (and labeled to indicate they should not be used for potable water) and nobody complains.
I wish asbestos in particular were still available for situations where you need insulation that's really hard to catch on fire, there's really no replacement for it that I'm aware of.