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May 6th, 2010
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How will the oil spill affect human health?
(CNN) – Every Thursday, our chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us live to answer your health questions. Today's question came from Twitter: How will the oil spill affect our health?
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This is mostly just missplaced hype. People are all crazy about it. It was an oil spill it happened either by carelessness or by a misleeding cause. It happened and is over with so lets make the best of the situation and do our best to save the ecosystem and the wildlife.
I do not understand why the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is referred to as a oil spill! The environment and economy will be hurt significantly for decades. It is a disaster of global proprtions, not just a little spill
dome is not necessary and wasting time – oil floats to surface and can be pumped into takers/barges –
employ a floatation of existing tankers/barges starting at epicenter of shaft leak to recover (pump skim off surface oil)
possible "stop leak" would be explosion deep in old shaft using a missile
thank you
Michael Gruters – former faculty physics Princeton late 60'
p.s. the use of dispersing chemicals make surface removal impossible and poisons the sea – really stupid....
A great many Petrol-Chemicals are known carcinogens. The major ingredient in Gasoline, BENZENE is a known carcinogen. In med school it was used for my first year to wash organic chemistry glassware. My second year that use was entirely banned and huge orange stickers were placed on all of the Benzene containers, 'Known Carcinogen'. In my third year, Benzene was used to create cancer tumors on animals to test Dr. P's cancer killing silver bullet he created.