Comments on: EPA’s Bright Idea: Let’s Get Rocket Fuel Chemical Out of Drinking Water http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/03/epas-bright-idea-lets-get-rocket-fuel-chemical-out-of-drinking-water/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 14:57:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: LessIsMore http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/03/epas-bright-idea-lets-get-rocket-fuel-chemical-out-of-drinking-water/comment-page-1/#comment-625062 LessIsMore Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:20:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=25819#comment-625062 My gosh, I know where we can get all of the flouride we'll ever need! My gosh, I know where we can get all of the flouride we’ll ever need!

]]> By: SilenceIsGolden http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/03/epas-bright-idea-lets-get-rocket-fuel-chemical-out-of-drinking-water/comment-page-1/#comment-623814 SilenceIsGolden Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:24:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=25819#comment-623814 Actually, this is the answer to a problem I've been having for a long time with understanding a large part of the US-american public. In order for many populist, extreme ideas to find fertile ground, you need to prepare this ground. So, the logic in the madness here (resistance to providing people with water that's as much untainted as possible): It's a good way to keep a large percentage of the population dumb. It falls into the same category as giving people jobs that don't pay for their livelihood, so they have to take on a second job and then all they are able to do after they come home from work is stop by a fast-food chain, plonk down in front of the TV and fill their kids' and their own stomachs and heads with the assorted garbage in front of them. Seriously, again, I'm not being facetious, it just suddenly all makes much more sense. Actually, this is the answer to a problem I’ve been having for a long time with understanding a large part of the US-american public. In order for many populist, extreme ideas to find fertile ground, you need to prepare this ground. So, the logic in the madness here (resistance to providing people with water that’s as much untainted as possible): It’s a good way to keep a large percentage of the population dumb. It falls into the same category as giving people jobs that don’t pay for their livelihood, so they have to take on a second job and then all they are able to do after they come home from work is stop by a fast-food chain, plonk down in front of the TV and fill their kids’ and their own stomachs and heads with the assorted garbage in front of them.

Seriously, again, I’m not being facetious, it just suddenly all makes much more sense.

]]> By: SilenceIsGolden http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/03/epas-bright-idea-lets-get-rocket-fuel-chemical-out-of-drinking-water/comment-page-1/#comment-623669 SilenceIsGolden Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:19:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=25819#comment-623669 "That, in turn, can disrupt [...] mental development in unborn children and infants." @Wil: I feel for you. My sympathies, it's not your fault you had to drink that bad stuff all your life. (I'm serious, not facetious.) “That, in turn, can disrupt [...] mental development in unborn children and infants.”

@Wil: I feel for you. My sympathies, it’s not your fault you had to drink that bad stuff all your life. (I’m serious, not facetious.)

]]> By: Wil http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/03/epas-bright-idea-lets-get-rocket-fuel-chemical-out-of-drinking-water/comment-page-1/#comment-622650 Wil Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:37:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=25819#comment-622650 The more anyone analyzes air, water, food, materials, or anything else, the more they will find. That does not necessarily mean that any of it is bad for human health. It just means it is present. The mindless thing to do is to limit, or even ban, virtually every chemical one can find in air, water, and so on. But that is not science. That is daytime talk show thinking. Also, like any other government agency, the EPA has very strong incentives to endlessly grab more power, and to endlessly grow their bureaucracy. The more anyone analyzes air, water, food, materials, or anything else, the more they will find. That does not necessarily mean that any of it is bad for human health. It just means it is present.

The mindless thing to do is to limit, or even ban, virtually every chemical one can find in air, water, and so on. But that is not science. That is daytime talk show thinking. Also, like any other government agency, the EPA has very strong incentives to endlessly grab more power, and to endlessly grow their bureaucracy.

]]> By: nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/03/epas-bright-idea-lets-get-rocket-fuel-chemical-out-of-drinking-water/comment-page-1/#comment-621397 nick Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:01:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=25819#comment-621397 Be nice if we could find a use for perchlorate and recycle it. And this on top of all the pharmaceuticals and drugs in our tap water, among whatever other (BPA, dioxin, phthalates etc..) toxic leachates come out of our manufacturing sector. Be nice if we could find a use for perchlorate and recycle it.

And this on top of all the pharmaceuticals and drugs in our tap water, among whatever other (BPA, dioxin, phthalates etc..) toxic leachates come out of our manufacturing sector.

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