It depends on how you quantify "tiny amounts." A tiny amount of nicotine, applied to the skin, is lethal. An even tinier amount found in nicotine gum is medicinal. Same with mercury. A "tiny amount" can make you very dead, but an even tinier amount is harmless. How do we know this? Because we all carry hg in our bodies, and our bodies have adapted to the burden. Mercury is spewed out of volcanoes, and enters the air as dust from decaying rocks. It's everywhere, and has been for a billion years. In very tiny amounts. If no amount of mercury was safe, as you tell us, then we would all have the symptoms of mercury poisoning.
You said that no amount of mercury is safe, and you have no evidence, apparently, to back up such a ludicrous claim. Are you sure your columns are being reviewed by people who know better?
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It depends on how you quantify "tiny amounts." A tiny amount of nicotine, applied to the skin, is lethal. An even tinier amount found in nicotine gum is medicinal. Same with mercury. A "tiny amount" can make you very dead, but an even tinier amount is harmless. How do we know this? Because we all carry hg in our bodies, and our bodies have adapted to the burden. Mercury is spewed out of volcanoes, and enters the air as dust from decaying rocks. It's everywhere, and has been for a billion years. In very tiny amounts. If no amount of mercury was safe, as you tell us, then we would all have the symptoms of mercury poisoning.
You said that no amount of mercury is safe, and you have no evidence, apparently, to back up such a ludicrous claim. Are you sure your columns are being reviewed by people who know better?
September 29, 2011 - 9:35amThis Comment
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