by Sully » 26 Aug 2016, 15:35
Yes Irving, Those not so thoroughly approved practices are scary indeed. Every time I get thinking the approval process is entirely too slow, I just think of all the "law-suits" against the drug companies have placed against them, that is usually when I realize that in the case of these drugs or processes; they probably weren't long enough. It is the long after problems that are started when the process or drug was taken, that is the problem. And understanding these often takes many years. I myself do not think every process or drug should be evaluated exactly the same as seems to be the way this is done today.
A dear friend of mine was a color matcher for an Industrial finish company. The chemicals in these finishes Epoxy based aromatic chemicals, destroyed many cells in his brain. This took many years working for this company, like almost 50 years. Shortly after he retired (62yrs) he was walking down a sidewalk in Florida when he just fell down and was unable to ever stand or walk on his own again. He was one of the most humorous, full of life, people and clever people I personally ever knew. So many of the chemicals/medicines we create have so very long term effects, especially maintenance drugs or in this case permanent processes, many can never be truly lifetime use. evaluated.
Using treatments that have NOT ever been tested at all or extremely short term testing for lifetime maintenance stuff is extremely risky, and foolish. The guy in the story was foolish and looking for somewhat of a miracle! Not likely going to happen 99.9% of the time.