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“We were putting into industrial production a lot of really nasty chemicals. There was just no knowledge of these things, and we were pouring stuff down into the city sewer system.” - Gordon Moore

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-15/american-... (cites the main source that is no longer on the web)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtyUnad7Jo (audio from the interview)

Despite the quote, what a lot of people question is Gordon Moore's ignorance. He has a PhD in chemistry afterall.




We know a lot more now than we did.

There’s a generation or two of chemists, pharmacists, etc who habitually mouth pipetted common lab solvents that we now know to be carcinogenic.

As early as 1969 chemists were identified as having increased cancer risk

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v047n008.p014b




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