not sure if serious, but lead's toxicity is not due to endocrine disruption
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highlighting endocrine disruption, which is something lead does in addition to being a straighforward toxic heavy metal, was in service to the rest of the construction
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Sooner or later we'll wake up to the need for engineering gut bacteria to act as a pre-liver chemical processing step
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We've spent millions of years evolving those gut bacteria to do just that; might as well do a bit of intelligent design to make up for our lack of intelligent chemical waste management.
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You forgot about the Teflon. Watch The Devil We Know documentary on Netflix and you will want to start setting up guillotines.
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The boomer generation got lead kicked out of gas; our grandparents'/great-grandparents' generations were the ones who first used it. We did other variants on "better living through chemistry", and gave you mass quantities of high-fructose corn syrup.
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modern petrol engines used with modern oils last faaaar longer than they did in the leaded petrol days so it's not really a trade off
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