It seems you and I now have something in common inside our bodies: PFOS. I've finally found a point of connection between us.

Out of curiosity as to why 3M would insert this commonality into me to help us share a sense of solidarity, I looked up some safety-related research papers. I came across a 3M technical paper by Seacat et al. (2002)[1], which claims that under their experimental conditions, no harmful effects were observed up to a certain dose.

Seeing this perfectly illustrates just how much science and technology are dictated by the institutions they are affiliated with.

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12075127/

> 2002 research

And from the article: at that point 3M execs had known this class of chemicals was toxic for 3 decades.