Et al,
Having been rather lll and in the hospital all last week, this is the first I've seen of this.
Pollution good for you?
What kind of idiotic, moronic nonsense are we up to now? Bringing to environmental regulatory science and public health clearly discredited principles that used to constitute homeopathic medicine?
As to politics, I am a medium conservative republican who didn't like either choice for President last time around and so chose the one I though was least awful.
Climate change is clearly real. What is not clear is how much anthropogenic activities contribute to it or if it was going to happen anyway (as it has many times in the past)..
A book on the econmoincs of climate change I reviewed for a journal a few years ago lead me to the conclusions that we can no longer afford all of us in terms of a sustainable environment, and that whether or not anthropogenic activites contribute significantly to climate change or not, what's wrong with having clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and sa afe and adequate food supply, etc., etc. etc.
Are there "safe" levels of pollutant exposure? Quite difficu;t to say. There are levels below which we are currently not able to detect adverse effects, but that doesn't mean with long-term and usually multiple complex mixture exposures that they clearly do not exist. Public health should whenever possible err on the side of being to conservative rather than the "let the breather beware" lassez-faire approach.
Maybe I'll cogitate on this some more later when I'm more up to par, but this approach to me seems sheer lunacy.
Alan
Alan H. Hall, M.D.
Medical Toxicologist
Clinical Asistant Professor
Colrado School of Public Health
University of Colorado-Denver
Thank you Rob!
To verify the actual toxicity of various pollutants/particulates, we need to have the data on human clinical trials, not on other species. According to recent UNO report, 4.2 million deaths occur
each year due to air pollution. Also, how we are going to measure low and high pollution.
This will be a good puzzle for Dr. Alan Hall, a toxicologist to interpret reported toxicological data published in peer review journals about some pollution
is good for humans.
Tilak
The title of this LA Times article speaks for itself. Interesting to hear what “mainstream” toxicologists have to say on this.
Rob Toreki
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