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A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica imagine a world where EVERYONE is like RFK instead of just most of them
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A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialquote from article:
"An American mechanical and chemical engineer named Thomas Midgley Jr. was a key player in the development of leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) because it was an excellent anti-knock agent, as well as the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) like freon. Midgley publicly defended the safety of tetraethyl lead (TEL), despite experiencing lead poisoning firsthand. He held a 1924 press conference during which he poured TEL on his hand and inhaled TEL vapor for 60 seconds, claiming no ill effects. It was probably just a coincidence that he later took a leave of absence from work because of lead poisoning. (Midgley’s life ended in tragedy: he was severely disabled by polio in 1940 and devised an elaborate rope-and-pulley system to get in and out of bed. That system ended up strangling him to death in 1944, and the coroner ruled it suicide.)"Can't make this stuff up.
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"An American mechanical and chemical engineer named Thomas Midgley Jr. was a key player in the development of leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) because it was an excellent anti-knock agent, as well as the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) like freon. Midgley publicly defended the safety of tetraethyl lead (TEL), despite experiencing lead poisoning firsthand. He held a 1924 press conference during which he poured TEL on his hand and inhaled TEL vapor for 60 seconds, claiming no ill effects. It was probably just a coincidence that he later took a leave of absence from work because of lead poisoning. (Midgley’s life ended in tragedy: he was severely disabled by polio in 1940 and devised an elaborate rope-and-pulley system to get in and out of bed. That system ended up strangling him to death in 1944, and the coroner ruled it suicide.)"Can't make this stuff up.
I have heard it said that no organism except cyanobacteria has had as large an impact on the atmosphere as Thomas Midgley Jr.
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A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica they also want to bring back asbestos
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@arstechnica I'm actually waiting for MAGA to declare unleaded fuel as "woke" :)
@gimulnautti @arstechnica
It sort of is.Leaded fuel exhaust in the air makes young men erratic and violent which is *manly* and also is how things were when RFK was younger. I'm honestly surprised there isn't already a "return to tradition" campaign over it, to restore the Red Blooded American Man.
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A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialMore on Clair Cameron Patterson #Citizen #Scientist...
https://richard.mdpaths.com/history/clair_cameron_patterson/index.html
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More on Clair Cameron Patterson #Citizen #Scientist...
https://richard.mdpaths.com/history/clair_cameron_patterson/index.html
@nickrauchen @arstechnica This guy is my No. 1 scientific hero. His work to find the age of the earth is astonishing but then to work to get tetraethyl lead out of gasoline is almost beyond belief.
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@nickrauchen @arstechnica This guy is my No. 1 scientific hero. His work to find the age of the earth is astonishing but then to work to get tetraethyl lead out of gasoline is almost beyond belief.
I agree! First heard about Clair Patterson in "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.
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I agree! First heard about Clair Patterson in "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.
@nickrauchen @arstechnica It was the series "Cosmos" that got me into Patterson. I read articles by and interviews with him and the guy was just on another level. He said that other scientists told him they would show his age of the earth was wrong and they'd come up with the right age. They never did. His work was too good.
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A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialYet another Republican billionaire who should burn in hell.
https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-charles-koch-purchased-supreme-court-s-epa-decision
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
https://jacobin.com/2022/02/charles-koch-epa-carbon-emissions-supreme-court
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/climate/climate-deniers/front-groups/mercatus-center/
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