Comment by noosphr
1 day ago
I have incandescent light bulbs at home I have to pretty much smuggle from China. It's amazing how we're replaying the asbestos playbook a century later. Only this time it's government mandated.
1 day ago
I have incandescent light bulbs at home I have to pretty much smuggle from China. It's amazing how we're replaying the asbestos playbook a century later. Only this time it's government mandated.
where do you purchase yours out of curiosity? My incandescent light bulb dealer on Ebay stopped selling them...
> It's amazing how we're replaying the asbestos playbook a century later
Can you elaborate?
Asbestos was pushed as a magical solution to problems of fire in homes without paying attention to the health effects. It took 80 years for the obvious to become law.
Leds are pushed as a solution to energy consumption by humans without paying any attention to the health effects. Hopefully it will be less than 80 years of cancers and metabolic disruption before the obvious is done.
But this time the regulation was captured pre-emptively, to the point that following best scientific advice for your health is illegal is most of the developed world.
LEDs being ugly or causing eyestrain is one thing. But cancer? There's very little chance that LED lighting causes cancer. We don't have a plausible mechanism for that.
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> But this time the regulation was captured pre-emptively, to the point that following best scientific advice for your health is illegal is most of the developed world.
Please cite your sources then. And no the other article you linked is not proving your claim
There's a mostly-unsubstantiated-by-data belief that LED lighting can cause health problems by some combination of flickering and narrow color spectrum.
There's a mostly-unsubstantiated-by-data belief that LED lighting can NOT cause health problems by some combination of flickering and narrow color spectrum.
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I guess you know better than the scientist studying it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...
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I’m guessing the Russian theory that asbestos is totally fine and isn’t harmful? The Russians still use asbestos and say it’s a plot by the west that we got rid of asbestos in our buildings. (Don’t shoot the messenger here, I have no dog in this fight and am not expressing an opinion)
Asbestos is totally safe as long as it’s not friable and you don’t sand it or disturb the fibers. Mesothelioma was a major problem if you were repeatedly exposed to asbestos. It’s present in nature and especially in soil in small concentrations. What makes it dangerous is if you’re constantly breathing it in. You would be doing that if you ran a buffer over asbestos tile for years, or if you worked in a space with asbestos pipe insulation, or if your job was to install asbestos siding or sheet flooring or formica(many adhesives contained it). Even gypsum wallboard contained asbestos up through the 80’s. It’s precisely its ubiquity as a building material that makes it dangerous because people are constantly disturbing it occupationally.
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You are expressing disinformation. The actual regulations are very different from what you make it seem.