Hell yes, and burning it is sure to create dioxins which are carcinogenic too.

You can get dioxins when burning vinyl chloride polymers (“poly vinyl chloride”), but not the vinyl chloride monomer, if my chemistry degree serves me correctly.

Is that a risk you'd take with your own life, or just a risk you think other people should take with their own lives but not yours?

Well like I said I used to be a chemist so I was exposed to organic vapors every day. if the dioxins are there they will be very easy to measure.

For starters, you could acknowledge that a train explosion is already well outside normal lab conditions for vinyl chloride. Don't pretend you know what compounds were formed in this accident. Modeling this incident as a low exposure (see: your dismissal of the carcinogenic nature of vinyl chloride) to the pure substance is absurd.

Put your life where your mouth is and go live there.

Would you please stop posting flamebait/unsubstantive comments? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and if you keep doing it then we're going to have to ban you again.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

AP quotes two different experts warning about dioxins from this incident. Did they get it wrong?

https://apnews.com/article/rail-accidents-evacuations-ohio-h...

Yes, I disagree with the professor. I think you will get very little dioxin contamination from burning vinyl chloride monomer in atmospheric conditions.

Can’t heat drive some polymerisation?

It’s being actively combusted…