On 10/01/2011 12:16 PM, Warp wrote:

>    There seems to be this notion that "mother nature" protects people from
> harm as long as humans don't tamper with her ways. In other words, as
> long as something is deemed as "natural" (the product of natural processes
> without human intervention) it's good and harmless, while anything that is
> deemed as "artificial" is harmful (to both people and nature).

But of course. It's not as if millions of lives around the world have 
been saved by the synthetic compound Tamiflu, not that every year people 
are killed by toxic mushrooms, spiders, snakes and jellyfish.

In fact, you know what? Mankind has spent decades trying to perfect more 
and more powerful nerve toxins. And after years of creating such 
deliberately poisonous artificial chemicals, the most toxic nerve poison 
known to man is /still/ 100% natural. It's called botox. It isn't even 
hard to find.

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