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Re:3M Execs Convinced a Scientist PFOS Found in Human Blood ... by CamperBob2 on Monday May 20, 2024 @11:10AM (#40416405)
Because everything is toxic in large-enough quantities.

Threads like this always end up semantically identical to the Unabomber's manifesto. Sometimes that kind of throw-the-baby-out reaction is justified, as in the leaded-gasoline example, while sometimes it's not.

Re:3M Execs Convinced a Scientist PFOS Found in Human Blood ... by vitalredundancy on Monday May 20, 2024 @11:38AM (#40416699)
this is some real bad faith arguing saying my point is semantically identical to the unabomber manifesto. i really don't think it's close to that, since i'm not arguing for any kind of primitivism, nor for killing people to get there. and if you agree that this throw-the-baby-out reaction is justified sometime, maybe this is actually one of those cases?

the point of the article, and what i think you're ignoring, is the decades of cover-up by the corporate producers of these chemicals to protect their profits. that's not a good look if they're convinced their products are worth the damage

Re:3M Execs Convinced a Scientist PFOS Found in Human Blood ... by pessimizer on Monday May 20, 2024 @11:27AM (#40416589)
> Because everything is toxic in large-enough quantities.

We mostly don't take things in the large-enough quantities to make them poisonous. We cook on teflon for entire lifetimes, scraping food off of it, throwing out the pans when we visibly see the coating coming off.

> Threads like this always end up semantically identical to the Unabomber's manifesto.

No, they don't. But suggestions of regulation or political change somehow always get compared to terrorism.