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- From: andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor)
- Subject: Re: The Outer Limits
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:36:34 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec16193832@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >May I cite a biochemist, Bruce Ames, who says that humans ingest more than
- >4,000 times as much carcinogens (by the standard rodent test) from natural
- >sources as from all artificial sources.
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- Which is irrelevant to your claim that a "society, not much more advanced
- technologically and not at all more advanced scientifically than ours" will
- be able to remove pollutants from the environment. How, for example, do you
- propose to remove DDT and its breakdown products from the food web.
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- Andrew Taylor
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