We have this attitude regarding materials which is pretty close to “innocent until proven guilty” but the fact of the matter is that all you can know about any

We have this attitude regarding materials which is pretty close to “innocent until proven guilty” but the fact of the matter is that all you can know about any novel material is whether or not it kills you quickly. I think we either need to appreciate that the industrial world is poisoned and take that as the cost of doing business OR stop poisoning ourselves at the cost of substantial technological progress.