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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Oh NO! Facts! (was Re: Attikamek-Montagnais Protest PCB Plan)
Message-ID: <274@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 22:56:34 GMT
References: <2324@yunccn.UUCP> <620791816.24086@telly.on.ca> <1989Sep5.173937.24977@utzoo.uucp> <8328@looking.on.ca> <28908@watmath.waterloo.edu> <261@van-bc.UUCP> <1989Sep6.141953.14830@tmsoft.uucp>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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In article <1989Sep6.141953.14830@tmsoft.uucp> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes:
>In article  <8328@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>Are PCBs that dangerous?  I have read that they are quite inert -- that's
>
>In article <28908@watmath.waterloo.edu> sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan) writes:
>>They are massively carcinogenic on contact.  They have on 'no effect
>
> A major article in the Toronto Star Sept 2 quotes prominent scientists
>such as John Polanyi (recent Nobel in Chemistry), Emmanuel Farber (an
>authority on toxicology) and Friends of the Earth representative Kai Millyard.
>Some excerpts:

Thank you Dave. Finally someone who has a copy of some sensible comments
from prominent researchers has taken the time to type them in. I
particularly dislike the media's attempts to "hype" PCB's into a menace far
out of proportion to what the fact's would indicate. And it really disturbs
me when these comments get propagated onto the net. If more people would
take the time to think about what they are posting perhaps we could actually
educate ourselves a bit more.

Anyhow, once again, a big thank you to Dave Mason for typing in the excerpts
from that article.

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