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submitted 1 year ago by jimbojambo@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Is this worse than Obama pretending to drink Flint's water?

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[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

Worked great for this guy:

CW: Ghoul

On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.[7][13] However, the State of New Jersey ordered the Bayway plant to be closed a few days later, and Jersey Standard was forbidden to manufacture TEL again without state permission. Production was restarted in 1926 after intervention by the federal government.

Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

The difference here being the fish is probably actually no worse than any other fish.

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'd very much like for you to be right, and you probably know better than me on this subject, but I also have an instinctive distrust of the whole "I'll eat/drink a little to show you it's safe" routine.

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I mean tbf most people before (midgley, Obama )WERE fucking lying or got sick themselves. which is why this is a dumbass stunt that doesn't actually build trust.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Midgley's legacy is the negative environmental impact of leaded gasoline and freon.[28] Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history",[29] and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny".[30] Fred Pearce, writing for New Scientist, described Midgley as a "one-man environmental disaster".[26]

LOL damn

[-] fr0ggi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Knew he sounded familiar.. "strangled to death by a device he devised to allow him to get out of bed unassisted." loool

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