Originally published May 28 2004
Nanotechnology has a dark side: nanoparticles shown to cause brain
damage
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Nanotechnology, it turns out, has a dark side that no one in the
industry wants to talk about. New research suggests that nanoparticles
could be harmful: fish exposed to nanoparticles duffered brain damage.
Within 48 hours after being exposed to a very low concentration of
nanoparticles, the fish produced brain damage that resembles Alzheimer's
disease. But you won't hear that from the people involved in nanotech --
which seems to be anybody who wants a grant these days -- because they
only want you to hear about the good news, not the bad. There's not
much good news, though: nanotechnology has so far been little more than
hype. In fact, nobody can even agree on what nanotech really is. As the
saying goes in the industry, "Nano is anything that I'm working
on, but nothing that you're working on." Frankly, just
about anything can be called nano, and if you scan the nanotech
headlines these days, you'll see what I'm talking about.
Nanotech
= hype.
The nascent nanotechnology industry collectively cringed last week
after a study showed that fish exposed to nanoparticles suffered brain
damage.
Critics say the much-hyped multibillion-dollar nano industry has a
dark side few want to talk about.
Nano products are not subject to any special regulations, in part
because little is known about the environmental and health implications
of nanotechnology, says Kevin Ausman, executive director of the Center
for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University in
Houston.
To see what might happen if buckyballs got into the environment, Eva
Oberd�rster, an aquatic scientist at Southern Methodist University,
put some into a fish tank at a concentration of 0.5 parts per million,
along with nine largemouth bass.
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