Sergey Dryga wrote:

Just one example:

> Aluminum brilliant whites contact dermatitis 
>     Aluminum oxide (AKA alum) is widely used as carrier for vaccines, anybody 
> who has received vaccines in their life has received Al2O3 injection (fact).

Where's the relevance to fireworks? Pretty much everything can be used as
medicine, in some form. Sulfur is being used in various useful drugs, so
the whole story about acid rain was just made up, right? 

See, where I'm trying to get with this is that if you want to say that it's
wrong, you should state that at least with the degree of "scientific" you
requested from the page author. Which is not that easy.

> In general, fireworks do produce contaminating byproducts, but htis page is 
> pure fear-mongering.  

I think you guys are really way over the top. This is not fear-mongering;
this is simply a simple guy stating his opinion, with some
pseudo-scientific factoids listed that he probably doesn't understand all
that well. Not much different from most (even here). You may understand
quite a bit more than the average person, but even you are at a loss to
scientifically (according to your own bar) state how much fireworks get
burned, what gets produced by that, how the products spread, and how that
affects nature there. 

Everything else is just doing the same as the guy there: you guess that it
isn't that bad (where he guesses that it is). Where's the difference?


> There are many more sources of pollution that are not as nice to look at
> and produce greater pollution because of greater use. 

I completely fail to see the relevance of this. Of course there are. But in
fact there are much more important things in the greater scheme of things
than messing with tiny electronic components, yet we do it... and have even
a mailing list for that. 

Gerhard

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