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Derek Lowe mentions dimethyl mercury as the first substance that's not worth the risk: https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/a-risk-not-worth-taking/4010881.a

• chislobog 20d ago
  some will be unfriendly or hostile towards the safety-conservative.
  • ChrisMarshallNY 17d ago
    Usually the managers of the people that could be affected.
• kylepdm 17d ago
  His "Things I Won't Work With" series on Science (https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-work-with https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...) is fun to read. The link in the article itself now unfortunately just points to the science.org homepage so you have to do some clicking around to get to this blog series.
  • Bluestein 17d ago
    This was my first thought.- (Well, the poor woman, then, this article ...)
  • rdtsc 17d ago
    From the link: > One problem with this subject is that it tends to lead to bragging contests about who has run the most hazardous reactions. But think about it: if these reactions have all been run for good reasons with the best protective equipment there is less to brag about. And if they haven’t, then the discussion turns into figuring out who has been the biggest fool I suspect the answer is "bragging rights" in this case.
• pavel_lishin 17d ago
  Fans of this series - and folks who are generally in this post's comments - are likely to enjoy Larry Niven's short story "A Tall Tail": https://reactormag.com/a-tall-tail/ https://reactormag.com/a-tall-tail/