[Ancesthntr]

Phosgene isn't a nerve gas. It works by combining with water in your lungs and forming hydrochloric acid which damages lung tissue. It does not work on neurotransmitter chemicals.

Thank you. I thought that this was a BS claim - phosgene was a weapon in WW1, and it took the Germans until WW2 to invent (and use, on Jews and others) nerve gasses like Sarin.

I looked this up on Wikipedia in about 5 seconds - but I guess that my expectations are a bit too high that ABC or any other media outlet would actually get their facts right.

[Sacajaweau]

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[WKUHilltopper]

“I looked this up on Wikipedia in about 5 seconds - but I guess that my expectations are a bit too high that ABC or any other media outlet would actually get their facts right.”

You need to give those fine folks at ABC a break. They are way too busy to waste five seconds of their time getting actual facts. This is not important for them to spend that much time on—now if it were something about Paris Hilton taking a leak or scratching her butt, that’s different.

[George W. Bush]

it took the Germans until WW2 to invent (and use, on Jews and others) nerve gasses like Sarin.

They mostly used Zyklon B on the Jews. A cynanide-based insecticide from the Twenties. It was a delousing agent and had an additive to make it stink as a warning to anyone nearby. The U.S. supposedly used it to delouse Mexican migrant workers and the trains they rode on to go pick crops back in the Twenties and Thirties. When the Nazis gassed the Jews with it, they had the manufacturer remove the warning smell so they couldn't tell they were being gassed until they started to drop. Earlier, the Nazis did use it properly to keep down lice in the camps as well.

Zyklon B has a weird history. First, to delouse. Then later misused to murder Jews in the camps.