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Those 3M execs should be punished by having pfos injected directly into their blood. Endocrine disruptors as far as the eye can see.

• quantified 2y ago
  Seems evil, basically.
• GuB-42 2y ago
  Which they would probably accept if they could get away with just that. The 3M CEO is a 61 year old man, which is typical for high level execs. According to most studies PFOS particularly affect children, and the damage is over long term repeated exposure over a lifetime, not high dose, one time exposure like a PFOS injection would be, and that's to someone who is at 2/3 of his life. Furthermore, endocrine disruptors seem to exhibit an unusual dose response curve, where lower doses may be worse than higher doses. In fact, getting a PFOS injection at a well calculated dose could be the kind of stunt a CEO could pull. Sending the message "see, I put my life on the line to show you that PFOS are safe" (CEOs are usually not risk adverse), completely misrepresenting the real risk profile. Similar stunts have happened on occasion.
  • endgame 2y ago
    This literally happened with tetraethyl lead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. > On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.
    • Aerbil313 2y ago
      And after Chernobyl, Turkiye Minister of Industry drank tea produced from the affected Black Sea region of Turkiye, on TV. https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahit_Aral https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahit_Aral
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