And it’s still news just how bad an idea this was. (HT to BBC Radio 4, which had an item on the story this morning.) Further academic references (which I haven’t read) cited here.
Aretae linked some of the science recently; it’s quite possibly the only situation in which a single article has, provided all the evidence holds true, completely convinced me on an issue. Usually I have reservations, but AFAICT, the researchers have done the due diligence in this case, they’ve -tried- to prove it wrong with new and different data sets, and keep coming back to the same conclusion.
Thou shalt not make pipes out of lead, for God hates that.
Imperial Rome already knew that.
So did we, actually. And yet we still put lead in machines which dumped it into our atmosphere for everybody to breathe.
And it’s still news just how bad an idea this was. (HT to BBC Radio 4, which had an item on the story this morning.) Further academic references (which I haven’t read) cited here.
Aretae linked some of the science recently; it’s quite possibly the only situation in which a single article has, provided all the evidence holds true, completely convinced me on an issue. Usually I have reservations, but AFAICT, the researchers have done the due diligence in this case, they’ve -tried- to prove it wrong with new and different data sets, and keep coming back to the same conclusion.
So why did you suggest it?