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Nanotech Protests Begin

Posted by Zonk on from the misguided-youth dept.

ByteWoopy wrote to mention a Wire.com story discussing the danger of nanotechnology, and the beginning of a backlash against the branch of technology. From the article: "...environmental activists sauntered into the Eddie Bauer store on Michigan Avenue, headed to the broad storefront windows opening out on the Magnificent Mile and proceeded to take off their clothes. The strip show aimed to expose more than skin: Activists hoped to lay bare growing allegations of the toxic dangers of nanotechnology. The demonstrators bore the message in slogans painted on their bodies, proclaiming 'Eddie Bauer hazard' and 'Expose the truth about nanotech,' among other things, in light of the clothing company's embrace of nanotech in its recent line of stain-resistant nanopants."

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  1. No grey goo... by lilmouse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So sad, grey goo is unlikey to come from this... But we could still get cancer!

    The problem with nanotechnology is that we don't really understand why much of it works, and we don't have any idea how the special properties it has will affect our bodies. Nano-whiskers? Great - I'm sure they help keep stains from getting on clothes. But what the *hell* are they going to do in my lungs?

    As we've seen time and again, what we don't know really can hurt us...

    --LWM

  2. Re:Send in the Clowns by doconnor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's easy to be anti-American/anti-Capitalist when viewing the website gives this error: "We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States."

  3. heh a bigger worry... by rebelcool · · Score: 5, Interesting

    would be nonstick cookware, which is where most people's daily encounter with teflon is. Obviously the easiest route to ingestion would be food cooked on it, compared to wearing pants. Especially if you use a metal utinsel to stir the food and accidentally scratch the pan, releasing the teflon.

    So why arent they protesting sellers of kitchenware?

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  4. Re:I'm confused! by el-spectre · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Noooo, has nothing to do with "want", has everything to do with evidence.

    I'll take a theory based on current science over a 5000 year old myth any time.

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    "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.