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Old 10-22-2007, 08:41 PM   #44
Undertoad
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"We are in an epidemic of environmentally mediated disease among American children today," he said. "Rates of asthma, childhood cancers, birth defects and developmental disorders have exponentially increased, and it can't be explained by changes in the human genome. So what has changed? All the chemicals we're being exposed to."
When I was young my first dentist gave me a bit of mercury to play with, which I did. In 7th grade they had a whole container of it, and we all floated a quarter on it to see what it was like.
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