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How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
Veritasium ^ | May 14 2025 | Veritasium - multiple

Posted on 05/26/2025 5:57:25 PM PDT by texas booster

0:00 Killed by Fridges
5:27 Teflon and The Manhattan Project
7:59 Teflon is Tricky
11:37 The Teflon Revolution
13:27 Earl Tennant's Farm
17:34 Inside DuPont
20:28 Fluoride In Drinking Water
25:00 It's bigger than that
29:23 What is PFAS?
35:56 How much PFAS is in Derek’s blood?
37:56 How forever chemicals get into your blood
46:18 Removing PFAS from drinking water
49:30 Can you lower your PFAS levels?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3m; dupont; foreverchemicals; pfas; teflon

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This video is 54 minutes long.

We have had many, many threads on PFAS and the danger posed by them.

I will agree with all of you that this video is just shy of scaremongering - maybe well into that territory.

But with the discussions by Robert Kennedy on "forever chemicals" this seemed to a decent discussion on the history of polytetrafluoroethylene.

Even if they blame DuPont and 3M for poisoning the whole planet.

1 posted on 05/26/2025 5:57:25 PM PDT by texas booster
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To: texas booster

It’s always been my theory that polyester was invented by two female chemists. Can you guess their names?


2 posted on 05/26/2025 6:01:11 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: texas booster

Around the year 1900,the average global life expectancy was, maybe, 40 years.

The global life expectancy today is 70 years. In the USA, it is over 80 years.

As El Rush-Bo often stated, one of the main global problems is the unequal distribution of the free enterprise system (that’s capitalism for those of you in Rio Linda).

https://humanprogress.org/trends/life-expectancy-is-rising/#:~:text=Even%20in%20the%20rapidly%20industrializing,expectancy%20is%20now%2078.7%20years.


3 posted on 05/26/2025 6:05:33 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: ChessExpert

Uh no. What are you thoughts on this?


4 posted on 05/26/2025 6:09:42 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: Menehune56

Bookmark, to be read tomorrow.


5 posted on 05/26/2025 6:11:30 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: ChessExpert

Poly and Ester?


6 posted on 05/26/2025 6:13:15 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: texas booster

I saw a video that said lead based gasoline was the biggest killer on earth because of how lead in the air poisoned everything.


7 posted on 05/26/2025 6:18:22 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: texas booster

They poisoned the planet? Who cares! “Muh corporation!!!” “Muh free markets!” Don’t tell muh corporation what they can and can’t do!

Sincerely,

the neoCON free traitor corporation worshippers who say that america is just a marketplace.


8 posted on 05/26/2025 6:19:21 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

“problem is unequal distribution of the free enterprise system”

The choice is often: In socialism and top down controlled societies the masses live in poverty. The top have the privilege of the system paying their expenses.

In a free society the invisible hand sees to it that the masses live a life those in socialism can only dream of.
Those more motivated, or more talented at acquiring wealth have more than the masses, who still have more than those in socialism. And when the invisible hand is at work, those who can work but choose not to work get what they deserve. And in a capitalist society there is far more voluntary, private charity for those who truly deserve it.


9 posted on 05/26/2025 6:23:27 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: ChessExpert
It’s always been my theory that polyester was invented by two female chemists. Can you guess their names?

Lucy and Ethel?

10 posted on 05/26/2025 6:35:55 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I saw that episode!


11 posted on 05/26/2025 6:44:24 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: imabadboy99

We just need more nationalized industries because nationalization solves every problem known to humanity.


12 posted on 05/26/2025 6:44:55 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: ChessExpert

That’d be Pollyesther.


13 posted on 05/26/2025 6:45:29 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Yeah. So much leftist agitprop posted here.


14 posted on 05/26/2025 6:47:35 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Be careful when you look at life expectancy. Many people lived into their 80’s and 90’s decades and centuries ago. Many more children died young from pneumonia and diarrhea and young women died giving birth or soon after. Then there were wars. Many wars.


15 posted on 05/26/2025 6:55:12 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ifinnegan; imabadboy99

All kidding aside we have three options.

1: Government dominates and nationalizes and kills anybody who dissents to the master plan.

2: A deep state of untraceable and un-elected bureaucrats self styling themselves as “experts” creating regulations in the darkness of the night time.

3: Free markets not within the government’s jurisdiction. A wall of separation between economics and state.

Choose wisely. The person I initially responded to was spitting venom at option number 3 meaning they are supporters of either variety 1 or 2. I figured that person was not a supporter of the deep state.

But I suppose there are deep state proponents around here.


16 posted on 05/26/2025 6:58:03 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Meaningless stats. The average life expectancy decreased because of the dramatic reduction in infant mortality.


17 posted on 05/26/2025 7:10:53 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: texas booster

Everything breaks down into innertness.


18 posted on 05/26/2025 7:24:55 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“But I suppose there are deep state proponents around here.”

Yep and they keep showing up on the Ukraine threads.


19 posted on 05/26/2025 7:29:47 PM PDT by BobL
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To: texas booster
Even if they blame DuPont and 3M for poisoning the whole planet.

Dupont brought us Kevlar, Tybek and Nomex and 3M brought us Post-it notes and Scotch Tape.

20 posted on 05/26/2025 7:30:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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