[dely2]

Profit motive. It was cheaper.

It's silly to try to blame all this on liberals. They were doing the best they could to protect lives and prevent disease, given the available data and the scientific understanding of the time.

[Black Agnes]

I suggest you visit junkscience.com for commentary and articles that repudiate your stance.

[babyface00]

The available scientific literature has always indicated that non-friable asbestos is not carcinogenic, and that friable asbestos is only so in huge quantities - like those working unprotected in an asbestos factory. The liberals always knew this, and consistently blew the danger of asbestos out of proportion.

[L.N. Smithee]

They were doing the best they could to protect lives and prevent disease, given the available data and the scientific understanding of the time.

Don't you mean "we?"

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

There is no enviromental problem and never has been!You people have been hearing this nonsense for so long the only thing you've proven is how easy it is to brainwash the stupid and cowering public!

[Itzlzha]

Profit motive. It was cheaper.

It's silly to try to blame all this on liberals. They were doing the best they could to protect lives and prevent disease, given the available data and the scientific understanding of the time.

Bull$%^&!!! The project had been budgeted to USE the Asbestos/Mineral wool...it was the chicken-little lobby that stopped the use.

This can be laid at the doorstep of the LIBERAL enviroMENTALists!

It is a fact that Asbestos fibers are carcinogenic...but it is the REMOVAL of Asbestos insulation that generates the MOST fiber and dust! Not it's application.

Isn't it funny that the planes struck the buildings above the point where the column insulation stopped? Almost like they KNEW where to hit, now isn't it?