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I mean.. so is uranium. When you don't specify amounts, you can say this about nearly anything that can be found outside a lab setting at all. I'm not saying t
by nevinera 6y ago
I mean.. so is uranium. When you don't specify amounts, you can say this about nearly anything that can be found outside a lab setting at all.
I'm not saying there's no threat here, just that this headline is worthless.
- ISL 6y agoUnlike uranium, which is naturally present in garden-variety dirt, chemicals like PFAS and PFOS are almost certainly made by humans.
- nevinera 6y agoI picked uranium because it's sufficiently scary to most people, not because it's special - you can say the same thing about any (stable) artificial particle too. My point was that without talking numerically about real-world impacts, this article has no meaningful content. To clarify, you should absolutely be concerned about this particular category of particles - the impacts are not fully understood, but they are substantial and meaningful. I'm just railing against the consistent failures of modern scientific 'journalism'.