Follow the Asbestos!

Until I can get more of our contributors actually contributing, I will take the liberty of reposting their seeders from RepublicanForum.com.

Here's another from TC.

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Asbestos is still one of the finest fire retardant structural materials existent... used as a filler in modern resin composites it would be less dangerous than some of the silica compounds used as less fire resistant fillers... (silicosis... another respiratory problem...)

The furor over asbestos in buildings seems amazingly to have occurred just about the time other insulation materials were coming to market.

Once the initial push to purge asbestos from every edifice in existence ran up against the actual economics of asbestos removal, disposal and construction of new structures it was suddenly apparent that people digging holes in the walls or tearing up tiles from the floor, grinding them to a fine powder and ingesting or inhaling them was not nearly as likely an occurrence as the LAWS seemed to indicate.

Many other proscribed 'dangerous substances' have a similar history that can be more adequately followed by the money trail than by good science and practical risk assessments and economic virtues.

So far the EPA has a horrible history of preferring those "scientific studies" it FEELS are worthy... than of actually funding research on both sides of issues and letting the results speak for themselves... (funny thing about that... when you fund only those groups that agree with your agenda you tend to get the answers that you want...)