If we could ever get the facts straight in these sensationalist posts / articles...
Before I begin I'd like to remind people of hoaxer society USA. A look at UFO culture, and even people that hoaxed 9/11 as examples of peoples
willingness to hoax in order to get attention on their pitiful lives, and / or to further their beliefs / cause.
That said, the headline is false. It takes well over an hour to get from Tampa to Homosassa. And that's taking the toll laden Veterans... with a
speed pass, assuming you miss most of the lights in Tampa on your way to Veterans, and then after you get on US98. It's more like 1.5-2 hours.
That's pretty significant.
From there it's interesting that they claimed that they've never used Simple Green, which contains about 4% 2-Butoxyethanol. I never knew SG
contains that, and now that I know it does, all of these claims about Corexit being the worst thing ever are mute: I've used Simple Green for years.
We go thru it like water at my work. I've had my arms all the way down into a laundry sink with it about half diluted, hundreds if not thousands of
Never, not one single time has Simple Green ever irritated my skin, throat, sinuses, face, lungs, etc. Period.
Some facts: 2-Butoxyethanol can be carcinogenic... and so can antioxidants (the best stuff for fighting and preventing cancer) if over-used.
High Doses of Antioxidants Can Mutate Your Stem Cells
Hold off on the megadoses of antioxidant vitamins like C and E. A study by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute shows that you can overdose
on these health aids, and the result could be mutated stem cells that cause cancer.
There's no cause for alarm if you're staying within suggested doses of your vitamins or nutritional supplements. This study looked only at what
happens when people take much more than the standard amounts of antioxidants.
Read the 2-Butoxyethanol wikipedia citations:
In rats it was carcinogenic after "sustained inhalation of high concentrations"... that is sustained perpetual breathing of it...
Groups of 10 male and 10 female rats were exposed to 2-butoxyethanol by inhalation at concentrations of 0, 31, 62.5, 125, 250, or 500 ppm, 6 hours
per day, 5 days per week for 14 weeks. One female rat in the 250 ppm group was killed moribund during week 8; four females in the 500 ppm group were
killed moribund during week 1 and one during week 5.
Now you might think that proves that working with it for 14 weeks with it in the air 6 hours per day 5 days a week, but there's a major
there: Rats only live for about 3 years. That's whats great about rats because their life cycle is so much faster that things happen multiple times
faster in them compared to humans who live an average of 70 years or so.
From there the weight ratios... The average rat weighs about a pound, while the average human weighs 150 pounds or more. That's a 150:1 ratio,
meaning 51ppm is like nothing to a human compared to an average of 200ppm to a rat. Simple math would make to about 30,000ppm, over several decades,
to reproduce the conditions the rats were exposed to. Another factor would be if the rats were fed healthy, cancer fighting diets. If not, then that
skews the results.
Would I recommend someone with cancer to wash their hands with the stuff? No. But should we go insane over 51ppm in a pool? Hell no.
The pool doesn't prove it was from Corexit. They'd need more lab results pools and other contained bodies of water for it to be scientific. Plain
and simple. Also, why didn't they find other components from Corexit in the pool?
And so on:
2-Butoxyethanol usually decomposes in the presence of air within a few days and has not been identified as a major environmental contaminant. It
is not known to bioaccumulate.
[edit on 30-8-2010 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss]