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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I prefer what Bethesda is doing: Before getting all worked up, test the fields for the detectable presence of toxins.

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/Council-Members-Call-on-County-to-Test-Artificial-Turf-Fields-for-Toxic-Substances/

Science works.
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Science might not have all the answers at this point.[/quote]

You could say that about rubber automobile tires or exhaust.  But you haven't given up your car yet, have you?[/quote]

To take this point further:

If you've ever bought tires, when you buy them the tread is about an inch thick. When it's time to buy a new set, the tread is about an eighth of an inch thick. Where did all that rubber go?  It got ground off by the tires rubbing on the road. It came off as a fine black dust. Wherever you go in you're car you're trailing a cloud of fine black tire dust, and so is everyone else, and we're all breathing it, swallowing it, getting it on our skin and in our eyes and ears, all the time.

Guess what: that tire dust is exactly the same substance as the crumb rubber used on athletic fields, just smaller pieces. I won't go so far as to say it's harmless, but if it were acutely toxic we'd all be dead.

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