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November 3rd 05, 12:11 AM

wrote:

What about you Chuck - I'm interested to know where your views on the
subject come from. Have you physically worked a lot with PCB's or come
from a healthcare/medical background? Done lab work with hazardous
chemicals? Why do you trust one view (not very dangerous) over the
other (very dangerous). Just hate tree huggers?

Andy

I am an EE. I know rather a lot of folks that have spent rather
a lot of time up to their armpits in PCB laden transformer oils.
They did this back when everyone *knew* the stuff was harmless.
It probably isn't quite as harmless as we thought, but it certainly
isn't the cause of instant death and dismemberment that the enviro's
say it is. As far as I can tell, none of the people I know who
were exposed was harmed. No cases of chloroacne, and all of their
kids look and perform normally. Anecdotal, to be sure, but it is
what I have observed. If the stuff was as bad as the enviro's say
it is, there should be a very significant number of problems in the
folks in the electrical professions... and an even greater problem
in the older hams. We all have been exposed. Where are these problems?
EE's seem to be making it to the normal ages before dying.... so do
hams (in spite of their smoking...)

I have seen the hysterical reactions that environmentalists have had
to quite a number of substances that the research shows to be fairly
harmless. I don't trust people like that. Everything is a little
good, and a little bad. They see things completely black and white
with no shades of grey.

Hate tree huggers? No, I own a staggeringly large number of trees.
I hate people that create terror in an attempt to gain political
power. The anti DDT, anti nuke, anti Freon, anti lead, anti mercury,
anti gun, anti any chemical man knows how to make group fits this
pattern.

-Chuck