Thread: Measles

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

At one time watch faces were hand painted with paint containing radium. The young gals that did the work used to dip the brushes and lick them to get them to a sharp point. Most of them died of various forms of oral cancer.

The girls that painted the dials in the cockpit of the war time planes did the same and also paid a high price.

Steve

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

No different than all the folks who think Fluoride in water will kill them or mercury in dental filling will kill you too.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Some said Floride was a communist plot!
This was back in the 50s

Originally Posted by cudarunner

My city of Walla Walla doesn't add Floride, but it's naturally occurring in the water here.

I'm taking no chances. I just read this, got scared, and poured-out all my Florida Water -- you can't be too careful.

Originally Posted by JBHoren

I'm taking no chances. I just read this, got scared, and poured-out all my Florida Water -- you can't be too careful.

No point in diluting good whisky.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

We all have different life experiences that colour our beliefs.

Well, that's the beauty of science . . . it works regardless of your beliefs.

And then there is this ...

Originally Posted by Orville

Well, that's the beauty of science . . . it works regardless of your beliefs.

Ah yes , the absoluteness of science.

If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say “no”; if we ask whether the position of the electron changes with time, we must say “no”; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say “no”; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say “no.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer

Well those are the tactics of the naysayers. Pick some area of science that appears to show confusion, doubt, and disagreement and use those incidents to knock science as a whole. What these folks can't realize are those incidents are the strengths of science and the whole scientific method.

All I'm saying is that not everything is black & white or as absolute as some think. Not that it doesn't work.
Uncertainty principle & observer effect comes from science also albeit quantum mechanics.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

All I'm saying is that not everything is black & white or as absolute as some think. Not that it doesn't work.
Uncertainty principle & observer effect comes from science also albeit quantum mechanics.

The only absolutes in this world are death and taxes.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

The only absolutes in this world are death and taxes.

And the first wont spare you from the second