Procrustes Stretched
Dante's Manifesto
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MAybe you should be advising the scientific team? Do you think they know about how showers would prevent things? What would propose the laws and fines or jail time be for not using your showering solution? Who would enforce it all?From the abstract to the paper referenced in the article..
Toxicopathological Effects of the Sunscreen UV Filter, Oxybenzone (Benzophenone-3), on Coral Planulae and Cultured Primary Cells and Its Environmental Contamination in Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands - Online First - Springer
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LC50 and LC20 refer to the concentrations that kill 50% or 20% of the test specimens..
The tip-off here is the HUGE RANGE that they "found" in the US Virgin Isl..
To go from 75uG/L to 1.4mG/L is a huge range. And my bet is -- those largest concentrations --- if accurate, where taken in small ISOLATED areas where tourists rent snorkels and fins and float over a small portion of reef.
Situations like that are EASILY remedied by requiring showers before renting the gear and advising on wearing tee shirts or other covering instead. I'll bet a big one that those readings that are high enough represent EXTREMELY tiny portions of coral reef habitat..