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Article #1120Re: How to build obsolescence into an appliance.
From: Ian St. John
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:51
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:51
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"Amy Dorrit" <littledorrit@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:3c6ddb14$0$17048$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > "Mark Harriss" <ningauble@bigpond.com> wrote in message > news:3C6CDF0C.E38A0BC7@bigpond.com... > > Hey Rod!, I had a bit more of a poke around on the net, can't find > > anything about bakelite itself causing small dicked alligators etc. > > but bakelite is also known as Bisphenol F and is generally known > > to be oestrogenic and an endocrine disruptor. > > Don't believe a word about endocrine disruptors. This is the biggest load > of pseudo-science crap ever, put about by Greenpeace and like extremist > organisations. It has been throughly discredited but the green whackos still > parrot it. Your pseudo-scientists discredited it? Not likely. I remember that it was originally discovered during testing of breast cancer cultures because the plastics contained a 'plasticiser' which mimicked estrogen. The cell cultures reacted to the plastic petri dish as if they had been given estrogen, and it took a while fore the *scientist* to track down the problem. Or if you are saying that the problems of 'small dicked alligators' is bunkum, you may be right. It is hard to track pesticide spills such as the one that spawned this report. Alligators are noted for determining sex by the temperature of the eggs. Or is that only crocodiles? Anyway, uit *is* a problem in specific species in specific areas of pollution, and an area of research for 'background levels' of organochlorines in the environment.
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