“You have picked the wrong nerds to mess with”... that’s a good line to end your article, but you should be aware that the Professional Geologists that have specifically been studying the mineral in question (like myself) are aware that there is still significant debate over the health effects of chrysotile (serpentine-derived) and amphibole-sourced asbestos [...]
I’m another nerd geologist with 26+ years of experience principally studying the asbestos issue; I’ve published widely and have spoken on this topic extensively in the US and abroad. What is obvious here is that many here do not know is that there are significant portions of CA that have soils that are inundated with [...]
The Times is having fun at California's expense--I get it. Having lived on both coasts, I know the joy New Yorkers feel laughing at the west. Your article focused on the geology of the state rock. But it ignored the politics. In 1965, Serpentine was chosen the state rock for one reason, according to the [...]
It is amazing how cloudy a simple issue can become when people with different agendas muck up the water. That’s what’s happening with the effort undertaken by Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), The John McNamara Foundation and the Pacific Heart, Lung and Blood Institute who asked California state legislators to symbolically remove Serpentine, the host [...]