Yeah, I don’t understand how this study was deemed ethical, let alone win.

Because Teflon is harmless to the human body. It is inert. It interacts with nothing. We literally make replacement body parts out of it.

This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.

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cyberpunk 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Drink a pint of it then?

	▲	timr 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a solid.

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genter 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just because it's inert doesn't mean it's harmless. I'm pretty sure that if you shove a wad of it in your windpipe, you won't last very long. Also go check out water poisoning.

	▲	timr 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, just like you can die if you choke on food.

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OskarS 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was curious about this study as well, both because the idea seems genius and wildly unsafe. I mean, I know teflon is inert, but really safe for consumption in quantities required for satiation? I googled the paper's title, and here it is: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26810925/

The answer is that it's a study in rats, seemingly (from the abstract) a very successful one. Probably a bad idea to introduce that amount of "forever chemicals" into the environment, but the central idea seems pretty sound.