CathyInBlue
Grandmaster
Two seemingly unrelated questions: Why do we call it "plumbing"? and Why is the periodic table symbol for lead "Pb"? The Roman word for lead was "plumbum", which they used to make their water supply pipes. The lead poisoning hindered their health.Other than the Romans had indoor plumming and then somehow that vanished for how long again?
Fast forward to today. We have a continuous stream of FDA approved drugs on the market, supported by huge advertizing blitzes, that in a few years will be the subjects of lawsuit after lawsuit for some side effect or other everyone claims they couldn't have known about. Couple that with GMO crops spawning cancer clusters, and it makes me wonder who had the cleaner diet, modern America or ancient Rome?