Well on behalf of the chemists and materials scientists of the world I apologize! It was certainly not the chemists who had to be "ordered...to halt discharges

Well on behalf of the chemists and materials scientists of the world I apologize! It was certainly not the chemists who had to be "ordered...to halt discharges of all fluorinated compounds into the river." But as a chemist my hunch is that simple non-structured per fluorinated small molecules are probably as biologically inert as silicones in vanishingly small doses. They just are even less degradable. And certainly the ick factor of fluorine vs carbon stabilized strings of molecular sand. (yes i like hearing myself write). I am blanket skeptical of most studies showing toxicity of compounds designed to be inert. It's usually the parts per mass animal vs parts per mass water that animal ingests bait and switch. Water is toxic in unrealistically high doses. https://chatgpt.com/share/67f85773-0ba8-8004-ab27-3b051513f423 https://chatgpt.com/share/67f85773-0ba8-8004-ab27-3b051513f4... (never embarrassed if my strong opinion is shown to be wrong by the way). I will check out the book. I will say we love irony... and we had a lot of fun... so who cares ;). We're not going to be as successful as our parents. Wanh. Eff it all and pass the joint. But yes perhaps if less commodified, we would have given more thought the spirit instead of buying in hook line and sinker, and the next gen wouldn't be stuck with "Paul American." On the other hand we did escape barely from the coming Facebook/Insta techno-soulp0calypse. So we're here now to pull up our saggy "genes" (unintentional typo but stuck with it... to much pot) and fight!