[net.med] Aluminized thinking - a health risk?

oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) (08/11/85)

In article <2015@ukma.UUCP> wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) writes:

>  My grand mother used to tell me that Aluminum Pans were poisonous.
>  (she died at age 88 in full possession of her faculties).
>  My mother laughed at my grandmother's foolishness and flaunted her
>  new set of Aluminum pans. ... now 69 years old and has Alzheimer's.
>  It seems the Aluminum Pans weren't such a bargain after all.

Sir,
    That kind of testimonial does not constitute medical evidence, nor
in fact evidence of any other kind.  (I happen to know that  the  real
problem  is  your  maternal  grandfather,  who  carried  the genes for
Alzheimer susceptibility...)  So don't  pan  the  pans,  man.   You're
gonna get what you're gonna get.

-- 
Oded Feingold	{decvax, harvard, mit-eddie}!mitvax!oaf	    oaf%oz@mit-mc.ARPA
MIT AI Laboratory    545 Tech Square    Cambridge, Mass. 02139    617-253-8598