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This was HR, in a situation where they can be seen as going off half-cocked.

OF COURSE the HR rep kept it going.

I am always wondering about that ... It says alumina which is afaik a precursor to aluminum. Doesn't make it safe but not automatically hazardous. I am a chemistry noob so take this with a grain of salt. Speaking of salt: NaCl is table salt, Na or Cl will kill you. Tricky! Does anybody want to shed some light if this is something to consider regarding alumina?

Making PTFE is very polluting. However the inert plastics in our bodies come from the pans and scraping. What they do or how our bodies respond is a whole different story. Just because it doesn't degrade it doesn't mean your immune system is going to ignore it and not try to remove it or attack it. The response to it can be a cancer or an allergy or nothing at all. The particles can end up blocking something like any blockage in a plumbing system.

Here's where people stop listening and then its just a crazy person talking. But once we have a good look and we observe the details, there's no disputing it. I've personally have had PTFE and aluminum under a microscope and applied all sorts of scraping to it. From afar, it looks like it's resistant to all sorts of punishment, and it is. But up close it's a soft material, lots of things can scraped it. There's no denying that it makes particles and you can go buy a cheap eBay microscope and prove it to your self. Everything else beyond that is where you need to trust researchers and medical professionals. If they say it causes cancer then so be it, stop using the pans.

It just happens. One day you are too lazy. But even using plastic utensils ofcourse will create rubbing particles. I've actually investigated this at work for particulate control processes. Then you got patterned aluminum pans coated with PTFE.... Obviously the high points on the pan surface will erode or cause utensil erosion leading to more plastics in my balls.

You're reading the sentence wrong. We literally breathe Aluminum, in from the air, daily.

vaccines don't even move the needle

That's literally how they work

The article is all about quantity but not even one bit about if either quantity is, in fact, dangerous at either level. What's the distance between the "safe" amount and the toxic amount? In a lot of cases there is an order of magnitude or two between the safe limit and the lowest level needed for a toxic effect.

I know this is targeted at people that can't science but I feel it left out a "why are you even worried about aluminum in the first place" bit.

If I were an anti-vaxxer I'd quickly dismiss this by assuming that aluminum consumed is magically not absorbed into my prescious bodily fluids during digestion. Those people are all about that needle phobia body horror so they will quickly move the goal post to it not being the amount but the method.

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