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Article #1125Re: How to build obsolescence into an appliance.
From: Ian St. John
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:41
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:41
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"Amy Dorrit" <littledorrit@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:3c6eec52$0$22904$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > "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 Sorry, but fictional quackery isn't 'observed'. Facts are. The facts have been observed, and no whining of yours will make the facts go away. P.S. They changed the plasticiser formulation for plastic petri dishes to eliminate the problem in that specific application. > observed in living animals! I rest my case. Endocrine disruptor THEORY is > junk science put about by anti-people, anti-technology fruitcakes such as Speaking of fruitcakes... > Greenpeace, who have been waging a pathetic phony war against plasticisers > and chlorine for years. Fortunately no one takes the slightest notice of > them. What? Did you babble something meaningless? I wasn't listening. Sorry.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103407,c7abc136b504aad5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103407,public X-Google-Thread: 1131b0,c7abc136b504aad5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1131b0,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,c7abc136b504aad5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public X-Google-Thread: 100c63,c7abc136b504aad5 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c63,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-16 16:40:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!bin6.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian St. John" <istjohn@spamcop.net> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair,aus.electronics,nz.soc.green,sci.environment References: <3C6C29B2.B5BAB397@ihug.co.nz> <3C6C977F.CDFD0840@bigpond.com> <a4i59d$f8uj$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de> <3C6CDF0C.E38A0BC7@bigpond.com> <3c6ddb14$0$17048$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <H_wb8.64099$d34.4490395@bin8.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com> <3c6eec52$0$22904$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: How to build obsolescence into an appliance. Lines: 42 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Message-ID: <T_Cb8.66530$Re2.5535250@bin6.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:41:23 CST Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv3-seVuF/y7OcatQi2mdSPQP0JaAs3qHrhxLrP4GYcoeZ1aUDhRgOyNQ9OQjK81kXy3WZaRI+iIvKDBxxt!FySR18Rwj7zk4O1JtslhW40wyuh33ExsXiMtO2i2SP3aEd6UD/4JCwohR28H9OAeEMW8xgIf6ngA!ufe3BQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:41:23 GMT