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===== Are We Scenting Ourselves to Disease, Dysphoria and Even to Death? ===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/18/2323092/-Are-We-Scenting-Ourselves-to-Disease-Dysphoria-and-Even-to-Death?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by dratler 18/5/25 DAILY KOS] | |||
Our current self-poisoning may be just as consequential, and far more widespread, than ancient Rome’s poisoning of its own elite (but not its ordinary people) with lead leached from lead water pipes. (Our English word for “plumbing” comes from the Latin word “plumbum” for lead, with its Periodic Table symbol “Pb.” Only Roman Emperors, senators and other elite drew their drinking water though lead pipes; ordinary Romans got their drinking water from safer concrete or stone acquaducts and fountains.) | |||
===== The secret gamble at the FDA that exposed Americans to risky drugs ===== | ===== The secret gamble at the FDA that exposed Americans to risky drugs ===== | ||
