The return of Killer Chlorine

The Register ^ | July 24, 2008 | John Brignell

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After many mind-sapping years of trawling through the morass of health scare stories, I formulated a number of laws, one of which was the Law of Beneficial Developments:

The intensity of the scaremongering attack on any new development is proportional to the level of benefit that it endows.

Unbelievably, the Chlorine Scare has returned. According to the science editor of the Daily Telegraph, Babies exposed to chlorinated water are at risk of heart problems.

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When chlorination was stopped in Peru in 1991 as a result of pressure from the EPA and Greenpeace, an epidemic broke out that spread through Latin America. Some 800,000 people became ill with cholera and 6,000 people died. Millions of people are still dying all over the world because of dirty water.

[J Aguilar]

I think they believe being killed by cholera is a very natural and ecological way of dying.

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Craziness never really dies, it just takes a nap to awaken anew. Next, Chlorine Produces Global Warming Climate Change Melts Arctic Ice Leads to Divorce and Child Abuse. New Studies to follow.