Mixing volatile and toxic chemicals and heating them up isn’t the brightest idea I’ve ever heard of
July 14, 2008
While I was surfing the net tonight, I ran across an an insightful blog posting called “Chemical Familiarity Breeds Stupidity”, that may explain why meth lab cooks put their lives at risk to make methamphetamine.
Angrytoxicologist, who is an actual Toxicologist by trade, suggests in his posting that the more often you work with toxic chemicals, the more apt you are to ignore how dangerous they are. Those new to the lab he works in, he suggests, are much more cautious that veteran Toxicologists.
“When you get a newbie in the lab they extremely careful about everything. Over time, they don’t die, don’t fall over, and don’t get sick. Despite the knowledge of how the chemicals they are working with really cause harm, this daily lack of obvious harm lulls one into a sense of invincibility.”
I think that Angrytoxicologist may have helped to solve the mystery about why people are willing to mix highly volatile and highly toxic chemicals together and then heat them up to make methamphetamine. Every single product they use warns users about how dangerous they are to a person’s health and safety. But, who believes what they read on product labels? Apparently, it’s not meth lab cooks. Most meth lab cooks typically wait until their running out of their meth labs, like human torches, before they realize that what they’ve been doing is probably as stupid as stupid gets.
Please visit Angry Toxicologist to read “Chemical Familiarity Breeds Stupidity”.
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