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Article #1124Re: How to build obsolescence into an appliance.
From: Amy Dorrit
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:33
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:33
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"Ian St. John" <istjohn@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:H_wb8.64099$d34.4490395@bin8.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com... > > 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. Oh -- a petri dish! I thought you meant this fictional quackery had been observed in living animals! I rest my case. Endocrine disruptor THEORY is junk science put about by anti-people, anti-technology fruitcakes such as Greenpeace, who have been waging a pathetic phony war against plasticisers and chlorine for years. Fortunately no one takes the slightest notice of them.
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