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Lead has many amazing properteis in metalurgy.
floride is NOT toxic in normal quantities. That is a myth you hear from the same people who spread anti vax garbage.
You are so confident in refuting so much peer reviewed research that disproves what you're saying. I'm all for 'fuck the corporations' on most things, but this is Facebook level nonsense.
Then please provide a source. Failing that, your comment will be removed for violating rule 8.
A link to a historical analysis of lead is insufficient for substantiating an assertion that peer reviewed studies confirmed its safety a priori. It was "approved" by fossil fuel companies insofar as it was useful in providing anti-knocking protection in primitive internal combustion engines, but the dangers of tetra-ethyl lead were known within years of its widespread introduction into gasoline. Ergo it was not "peer reviewed and approved" in the sense you're suggesting.
Your comment wasn't removed before, but it is now.
Now I’m kinda curious what happens to all the arsenic you usually get from gold mines. Do you still make skincare products with it?
Lead is traditionally used in piping, it was only relatively recently that health concerns over lead became major. Not some "CORPORATIONS WERE PUSHING BIG LEAD" conspiracy.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-lead-pipes-20160204-story.html
You'll notice that it says "to keep using" lead in plumbing and like applications, and that the early date cited for corporate pushback against health concerns for lead is 1923. Both of those back my assertion that the root cause of lead pipes is their traditional use, and that only relatively recently did health concerns over lead become major.
"that health concerns over lead became major"
But thanks for acknowledging that the use of lead in piping is ancient and has nothing to do with some glut of lead that the big mean corporations decided to poison Our Innocent Society(tm) with.
Just reminding you what your argument was that I objected to. :)
Ah yes, corporate lobbying in pre-market feudal Europe.
Jesus fucking Christ. It's almost impressive how insistent you are on getting basic facts wrong.
That’s so fucked up.