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  • Their recalcitrance (difficulty to degrade) has earned PFAS a reputation as “forever chemicals”—permanent contaminants in the environment and in our bodies.

    Loeffler and his team’s finding that bacteria can incorporate these recalcitrant global contaminants into their cell membranes counters that fatalistic idea. The bacterial process identified in the research paper could contribute to cleaning up environmental PFAS contamination, although final disposal of the chemicals is still an unsolved issue.

    The fact that they are using it doesn’t tell whether that’s a good or a bad thing. We also “integrate” some artificial chemicals in our tissues instead of using the naturally produced, but most of the time that results in us getting ill.









  • As the many fictions necessary to sustain the war were exposed, Nixon and company needed a new approach — and a new lie. In a press conference on May 19, 1969, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced the existence of around 1,300 American soldiers now deemed “missing in action,” around half of whom were believed to be prisoners of war. The unaccounted for would now publically be described as “POW/MIA,” implying that any serviceperson missing in Vietnam could also be a prisoner of war. This transformed the war from a political issue into a humanitarian one, trading public support for sympathy. It didn’t matter why we were there in the first place: our boys were there, and by God were we going to do anything to get our boys home.