20 Mar
2005
20 Mar
'05
2:36 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:33:01 +0100, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Paul wrote:
The clue here is that media want you to believe there is a single
substance called "dioxin", just like this dangerous "atom" thing.
Dioxins are as different as, say, alcohols or acids.
I understand from a friend who is doing research in biochemistry, that a
couple of dioxins are harmful to people. They are not all that easy to
produce.
On the other hand, anything is harmful in big enough doses. I think
Yushenko got a dose several million times what you get from working all
your life in an incinerator.
--
-bv
If I remember right, dioxins are substances known
to be extremely
dangerous to guinea pigs, slightly toxic to rats, and maybe not at all
to most other mammals...
I'm sure that's very comforting to Viktor Yushchenko, who is suffering
from dioxin poisoning.