So freshman Liberal Democrat Julian Huppert has rankled Tom Harris with his patronising suggestion that MPs should undergo a science training course so that they are “able to understand the information they were being presented with”.
With a PhD in biological chemistry, brainbox Huppert churned out papers on such accessible topics as the “Prevalence of quadruplexes in the human genome”. He will presumably, therefore, understand the following notation:
ClCH2CH2Cl + 3 Cl2 → Cl2C=CCl2 + 4 HCl
According to Wikipedia (so it must be true), this is the chemical reaction to produce tetrachloroethylene, the chemical used in, erm, dry cleaning.
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Possibly he is trying to minimise his, and more importantly the dry cleaning workers to tetra chloroethylene classes as a 2A carcinogen – probably causes cancer in humans
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