This is nothing new. This strategy, developed by Big Tobacco is used over and over again. Steps: (1) Say it is beneficial to health (there are always doctors

This is nothing new. This strategy, developed by Big Tobacco is used over and over again. Steps: (1) Say it is beneficial to health (there are always doctors in ads) (2) When 1 is disproven, deny it (make it a lifestyle thing, expand into more demographics, there was a recent comment/post how there was an ad guy who convinced women to smoke with the right marketing) (3) Also deny that workers who are exposed more are getting sick, they didn't follow proper procedures, etc. Its the workers fault! (4) Keep the controversy alive (this will run for 3 - 5 decades), the science is not settled, etc. (5) If we don't have this, it will stop industrial/economic progress. (6) It is unfair to ban this until definitive proof exists.Further tests and studies required. This playbook is used by all industries. This is a really good summary of some of the strategies employed by Lead: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.75.4.344 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.75.4.... Bureau of Mines released its preliminary findings on the possible dangers of leaded gasoline to the general public. The New York Times headline summed up the report: "No Peril to Public Seen in Ethyl Gas/ Bureau of Mines Reports after Long Experiments with Motor Exhausts/ More Deaths Unlikely." "Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, president of the American Public Health Association, said that such evidence did not exist. "Certainly in a study of the statistics in our large cities there is nothing which would warrant a health commissioner in saying that you could not sell ethyl gasoline," he pointed out. Vaughan acknowledged that there should be further tests and studies of the problem but that "so far as the present situation is concerned, as a health administrator I feel that it is entirely negative." Emery Hayhurst also argued this point at the Surgeon General's Conference, maintaining that the widespread use of leaded gasoline for 27 months "should have sufficed to bring out some mishaps and poisonings, suspected to have been caused by tetraethyl lead.'" Lead is a gift of God: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2023/jan/12/the-gift-of-god-that-has-poisoned-american-kids-for-100-years https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2023/jan/12/the-gi... How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917235 Tobacco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Indoor_Air_Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Indoor_Air_Research