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Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos"
Stony Stevenson writes "Certain carbon nanotubes may be as hazardous to humans as asbestos.
A paper to be published in Nature Nanotechnology suggests that inhaling certain types of nanotubes can lead to the formation of mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer commonly caused by exposure to asbestos.
"This is a wakeup call for nanotechnology in general and carbon nanotubes in particular," said Andrew Maynard, co-author of the report and chief science adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies." I'm really hoping that those medical face masks get popular again. That's a look that should really be cyclic, like bell-bottoms and thongs. Update: 05/21 19:18 GMT by T : See also this page at the Nanotechnology Project, which features a link to video commentary from Andrew Maynard, the researcher mentioned in the above-linked article.
bitches
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Yeah, never mind the pollutants they released into our atmosphere, rivers, and soil while building thousands of air planes.
ONLY AMERICAN NANOTUBES!
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Global Warming only applies to America; only in America will the ruling class prohibit drilling for domestic oil while considering SUING Arabs for making the price too high.
It's clear: if it's American and saves lives, jobs, money or promotes American prestige, it's evil. Solids versus gases, poison versus virtuous food (remember you exhale a pollutant, CO2, now) nothing else matters.
Must kill America, film (on your choice of broadcast channels and 99% of the cable channels) at 11.