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Good stuff. On Polio, you should go back to the origin of the word, when they were using lead arsenate. DDT caused paralysis, but I haven't seen that it was by the same method as lead arsenate. "The first use of the term poliomyelitis is attributed to Erb in 1875. Seguin used the term poliomyelitis several times in his 1882 paper, but instead titled it as “acute arsenical poisoning,” as opposed to referencing poliomyelitis, as all the medical literature and case studies that he had reviewed even prior to 1875 definitively proved that lead and arsenic poisoning caused the symptoms associated with what came to be called poliomyelitis later." https://charleswright1.substack.com/p/why-it-was-well-known-that-arsenic

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