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You can be sure that I was not "desperately trying to make a point."
I cited that study on turpentine simply because it reported conclusions representative of everything else I had read about the dangers of turpentine, including what I have read on the labeling of containers of artist's grade turpentine.
For the record, it was indeed a federal government study (Irwin, R.J., M. VanMouwerik, L. Stevens, M.D. Seese, and W. Basham. 1997. Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia. National Park Service, Water Resources Division, Fort Collins, Colorado. Distributed within the Federal Government as an Electronic Document); and its reports of the effects of turpentine upon human health cited numerous scientific references (not simply the results of student tests on shrimp).
And at the risk of again seeming hypersensitive, as a graduate of a land-grant college, The University of California at Davis, I also take offense at any insinuation that studies done at land-grant colleges are in any way inferior. Some of the greatest research in virtually every field of learning has been, is being, and will be conducted in our historic land-grant colleges.
I do agree with you on one thing. Enough of this.
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