67 If you ever wanted to know just how evil corporations can be, here's an article about how Clair Patterson lead the charge to de-lead gasoline and how corporations got away with doing so for years (www.mentalfloss.com) posted 81 days ago by redman012 81 days ago by redman012 +68 / -1 The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of Clair Patterson—a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth—took on a billion-dollar industry to save humanity from itself. 29 comments share 29 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Civilization is much older than we say it is.
anatomically modern humans have been around for like 300k years but we're only going to pretend that we decided to get our shit together inthe last 12000 or so