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struggle4progress

(118,274 posts)
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 04:34 PM Oct 2017

Damaged Brains

By Nicholas Kristof

... call it Dow Chemical Company’s Nerve Gas Pesticide ... One 2012 study found that it was in the umbilical cord blood of 87 percent of newborn babies tested.

... now the Trump administration is embracing it, overturning a planned ban .. in the works for .. years.

The Environmental Protection Agency .. banned Dow’s Nerve Gas Pesticide for most indoor residential use 17 years ago — so it’s no longer .. in the Raid you spray at cockroaches ... The E.P.A. was preparing to ban it for agricultural and outdoor use this spring, but then the Trump administration rejected the ban.

... the decision stirred outrage among public health experts ... Dow .. donated $1 million for President Trump’s inauguration ...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/opinion/sunday/chlorpyrifos-dow-environmental-protection-agency.html

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Damaged Brains (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2017 OP
Diminished brain function is good enough for him, it's good enough for you! Buns_of_Fire Oct 2017 #1
Yes!!!!!! The fewer brain cells you have..... angstlessk Oct 2017 #2

Buns_of_Fire

(17,174 posts)
1. Diminished brain function is good enough for him, it's good enough for you!
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 04:45 PM
Oct 2017

Damned anti-free-market libruls, anyway...

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