Eeeeeviiiilllll Dioxins

Master debunker, Michael Fumento does it again. By now, everyone in the known universe has seen the before and after photo of Ukraine presidential candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, who was poisened by someone who obviously thought that dioxins were among the most powerful toxins known to man. But he survived and the prognosis is good for his recovery. Read Fumento's piece:

It's perhaps fitting that dioxin was used in the attempted political murder of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. That's because dioxin is the most politicized chemical in history. It's notorious for its role at New York's Love Canal and Missouri's Times Beach, but primarily as an ingredient in the defoliant Agent Orange. Yet Yushchenko is alive because what's been called "the most deadly chemical known" is essentially a myth.

Dioxin is an unwanted by-product of incineration, uncontrolled burning and certain industrial processes such as bleaching. It was also formerly in trace amounts in herbicides and liquid soaps. We all carry dioxin in our fat and blood. But Dutch researchers said Yushchenko's exposure, probably from poisoned food, was about 6,000 times higher than average. So why, as the Munchkin coroner said of the Wicked Witch of the East, isn't Yushchenko "not only merely dead" but "really most sincerely dead"?

Be sure to read the entire piece. It's very illuminating and probably won't be given much press, when in reality, this should be headline news for environmentalists around the world.