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"Xocyll" <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote in message 
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> Remember when it was a GOOD idea to use asbestos in a home?


Still is.  Studies that showed asbestos was harmful were on asbestos miners, 
with really huge exposure rates.  No study has ever shown that exposure to 
basic asbestos insulation is harmful.



> Remember when salesmen ATE DDT to show how harmless and safe it was?


Yes, you can eat DDT with no harmful effects.  It isn't harmful to humans at 
all, and the supposed harm to other creatures is almost entirely bullshit. 
It doesn't harm the environment.




> Remember watches/phones with Radium in them so they were visible at
> night?


So?  People make the mistanke of think that because exposure X causes Y 
harm, exposure X/10,000 will cause Y/10,000 harm.  Actually that's almost 
never true.  Paranoia over microexposures is exactly that, paranoia.  If I 
drop a 10 kilo weight from ten meters onto the heads of 10,000 people it 
will cause 10,000 deaths.  But dropping a one gram weight from ten meters on 
10,000 people will not cause any deaths.  Effects almost *never* scale 
linearly, and the human body is too well designed to be broken by 
microexposures.  But we have paranoids and asorted others preaching 
irrational fear.






>
> Xocyll
> -- 
> I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
> a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
> Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
> FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr