"The bromine industry has not done a very good job in PR, in educating people that there are chemicals there that save your life and keep you safe." I feel bad

"The bromine industry has not done a very good job in PR, in educating people that there are chemicals there that save your life and keep you safe." I feel bad for the BBC because this article is a big pile of PR with jewels like: "The chemistry blogger Derek Lowe points out that the few people known to have suffered health problems (none of which were quite like those listed by Buzzfeed) were drinking a vast amount of BVO-containing drinks - in the order of two to four litres per day." So the culprit is in the person for drinking TOO MUCH!! 2 litters per day is a bast amount while also the recommended amount for a person to drink on a day. If you play sports like tennis or soccer or American football you are going to drink two or three times more than this. Never mind that athletes are the intended segment of drinks like gatorate. I am watching TV and it starts burning? This is the reason I use Apple aluminum displays, I don't want brominated sh*t near me. Unfortunately this lobby forced mattresses and quilts to use it and now you could detect those traces in the air of any normal bedroom. There are appearing lots of neurological disorders that are strongly linked to those products getting in contact with our body, as they are easily absorbed by our skin as well as our lungs. The problem with those lobbies is that they don't let us decide. I don't care if my TV weights more or cost more(injection molded plastic is way cheaper), I want a metal frame. Nobody in my family smokes so let me choose foams and feather products that are brome free. The excuse they use in order to force everybody to use those products is that most people have smokers in their house and they go to bed with the cigarette, so they are asleep while the house burns so they need to protect you. Turns out that protecting us against ourselves is a great business. It is a pity that a theoretically independent medium like BBC takes part on it: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html