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outsider wrote:
On 8/6/2011 9:05 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
jay wrote:
Wirgin explains, it was a surprise that they could accumulate such
hefty contamination without becoming poisoned. His team now reports
that the tomcodıs protection traces to a single mutation in one gene.
The gene is responsible for producing a receptor protein needed to
unleash the pollutantsı toxicity.
Great news! Now that we know the gene, we can get it too.
Dioxin won't be considered a toxin anymore.
There was one incidence of a public report stating that the early
tests for DDT didn't distinguish between DDT and PCB's, and that's
what led to the entire "silent spring" debacle.
And of course what people miss completely is that PCB's were
outlawed at the same time that DDT was, so the effect on birds
could have come from either, or both, being reduced. I doubt that
anyone will ever own up to this mjor error after so many years
of condemning DDT.
Why aren't you over with the social scientists, or did they send you
over here? DDT, PCB, Dioxin, PBDE among others are called "persistent
organic pollutants". Because they don't break down. They are even found
in penguins, although there hasn't been a mosquito problem in Antarctica
for years. DDT hasn't been outlawed, it has been restricted. Thing is,
if you keep using the same poison, the little buggers build-up a
resistance. And don't you worry about the makers of biocides, twice as
much is being produced today, than back when Rachel Carson published
"Silent Spring". It's all bad ****.
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- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.
Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/
[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis