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Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think
bshell writes "A Canadian panel of leading scientists warns that nanomaterials appearing in a rapidly growing number of products might potentially be able to enter cells and interfere with biological processes. According to a story in the Globe and Mail, the Council of Canadian Academies concluded that 'there are inadequate data to inform quantitative risk assessments on current and emerging nanomaterials... Their small size, the report says, may allow them "to usurp traditional biological protective mechanisms" and, as a result, possibly have "enhanced toxicological effects."' The council is an independent academic advisory group funded by the federal government, but operating at arms-length from Ottawa. The 16-member panel that wrote the new report included some of Canada's leading scientists and top international experts on nanomaterials."
Resistance is Futile...
we better start developing organic weapons that the machine can't take control of.
Leprechan? Is that a short Irish camwhore?
The good old times of duck and cover
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Well then, let me be the first to recommend you as a research subject.
One word, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Contains small parts. Keep away from children.
And how about more than 16 people, not all of which are scientists and experts on nanomaterials, actually chime in on this.
I don't care what you think if you're not a scientist. I'm not worried about intelligent cancers or jesus cancer.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Are you aware that you come off as a pompous git?
Yes. Does that change the risks associated with GM foods, though?
So what your saying is that these might give us super powers.
X-Ray vision here I come!