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Patreon Exclusive: An assortment of extended interviews about Teflon
🕑 Added 2025-06-20 07:57:42 +0000 UTCIn preparation for our video on PFAS chemicals, 'How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet', writer/director Gregor interviewed multiple experts in this field.
Here are the extended interviews with Henrik Hagemann - Co-founder and Chief Product & Innovation Officer at Puraffinity, Shrina Bhagat - Analytical Scientist at Puraffinity and Leslie Hamilton - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Bartosz Błaszkiewicz
20:00 wait... is PFAS cyclic? Because then the intro from The Lord Of The Rings rings true: "I feel it in the water... I feel it in the earth... I feel it in the air...!"
Bartosz Błaszkiewicz
As for the blood transfusion there is a simple test that we can do. A test subject is to donate some blood and then immediately get it back. If their PFAS levels drop, it stays in the equipment and receiving patients are safe. But if there's no significant difference in PFAS levels then it leaves with the blood. Of course it is possible that both are true so you need to measure exactly so that you know if the drop is the same when you get the blood back as when someone else gets it.
Bartosz Błaszkiewicz
I don't like how the conversation about ethinic minorities ended. It seems to imply that being an underrepresented group causes elevated PFAS levels. I don't argue with the data, but correlation does not imply causation. We should try to isolate the actual variable that causes this. It will probably also correlate with ethnicity, like poverty.
