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There's no shortage of bogus academics eh Brent!
When one ol'sod bites the dust, another takes his place.
Nature's way maybe hmmmm?

I can think of many things worse than DDT for human health to put over ceral.

But to address your smart assed remark - No I don't know everything - and I am pretty damn skeptical of zealots, know-it-alls and do-gooders who are arrogant enough to think they do.

Arrogance is uneducatable in my experience.

Apperson's challenge sounds PETAish!
...and so does Brent's "abstracts."
Perhaps William would like to try a diet of steel ball-bearings and 100% natural fiber for a year.
I'm buying ol'boy!

Actually, I was not making a challenge.I wondered if anyone would think and then do. The steel ball bearings would probably not be much of a problem.I remember reading x-rays (chest) with my father years ago,he the chest doc, and seeing chests with lead shot in them.One was of a person who was on the bottom and had about 100 pellets; the one on top absorbed most of the blast and was dead. I asked my father about the bottom one and he said that she was somewhat ok.I also remember teaching a science class in the Norfolk area in the 60's and the vice principal brought a gallon jug of mercury to the class room. It had been donated by the navy (ours).The eighth grade students were then encouraged to dip their hands into it. One teacher(not me) even heated a beaker of mercury and had the students smell the vapors.I later taught water workers and to this day,in my office, have lead water pipes that were installed in government housing during WW II and then used until the 1990's. I have also mouth pipetted sulfuric acid many times and have used asbestos matting and powder by the many pounds bare handed and no respirator.So,,66 and still alive. Although I know that I will die,and do not belong to PETA, I am now somewhat knowlegable of risk management.Do what you will and think what you want.Things change. However, I will not be repeating my above actions.Be my guest and continue them if you wish. Bill

One aside,"Arrogance is uneducatable in my experience".Think about that one. Bill

Possibly also uneducable.

jack

Still sounds like a challenge to me doc - do you glow in the dark?

Handled radioactive materiales in the 1960's bare handed.Actually, one can handle reactor rods as new without any fear.My teaching partner,physics,and at one time-- MacArther's staff,not only did that, but armed several bombs and set them off.No glow in the dark,but my 1966 Rolex had to be returned as it emitted too much.My Dad in the 1940's would let me sit behind the flouroscope and watch a soda go down while I looked on in a mirror.Sears(the store) had the shoe flourescope and we would go there and move coins around with our toes while watching.Still have the toes and a foot fetish.If you still think that I have made a challenge,no.But,if you would like one,check with me.I can think of ones that are mental and physical and impossible.

Awe come on now, the impossible challenges are easy to come up with. Its the ones that seem do-able but are really impossible to do, those are the ones that take some thought.

A do-able one. How about thinking the lead problem?For real and not with all the knee-jerk? One that will work for many. Bill