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Measuring Pollution In Humans
CHaN_316 writes "Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our body and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site. They've found things such as flame retardants, chemicals derived from DDTs, mercury, uranium, cotinine, and many more. The concern is a lot of this stuff is ending up in mother's milk. But hey, at least in the event of spontaneous combustion, I'll be partially protected."
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It's not actually spontanious, it's very very slow, normally when old people fall unconcious and somehow there clothes are set-alight, this flame starts to burn the skin and soon draws on the bodys fat as fuel using clothes as the wick until the bodys engergy stores are burning filling the room with increadably hot gas, hence why plastic goods near the top of the room tend to melt in such sinarios.
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But hey, it's rare, so it's not that morbid
If Iran really belongs to the axis of evil, wouldn't it be the right time to infiltrate that country now?
Instead america offers them money and help that they'll certainly spend on more WMD's.
You may mod this down. But at least one person will read this and think about it.
Who knows what the effect of these chemicals in small doses might be? For all we know, it might be beneficial!
Personally, I think this is nonsense, but over the last five decades this has been used as a debating ploy in regard to DDT, asbestos, dioxin, and (most recently) global warming, so I figure I might as well be the first to post it.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Another example of science by press release, or fishing for funding. There is a certain background level of all of these elements in humans, and the man-made compounds are being detected at levels far below active doses. Monitoring is worth it, but the tone is one of those wild-eyed fear mongerings based on a need for funding or intended to create a need for funding. What is the level over time? What is the variability based on geography, nationality, race, personal habits? How long before some Luddite does some specious calculation of how many thousands supposedly die every day due to "body pollution"?
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