Sanet Post, Daniel Worley
Re: Question rephrased
December 24, 1996

I think one of the key elements, if not THE key element here, is TIME. If given the TIME "commensurate wit the task", we would all be long dead before the report were ever issued. And I would certainly hope that the finding was that such materials have no adverse health effects on the human race. But the overwhelming evidence against such a possibility (evidence from other studies of so-called harmless compounds that have proven to be very harmful over time), is such that I would not want to wait for the study to be completed before banning the use of these products. Ban them first; study them for 50 years and see if there is any evidence that they could be harmful. If any evidence, even a very small incidence, is found, retain the ban.

Remember that several of the corporations that are developing and selling these things are the same companies that developed and sold (and tried very hard to convince us there was no problem with) products that turned out to be very dangerous. DDT, PCPs, Dioxin, and others.

--Dan in Sunny Puerto Rico--