Beware Of Nanotechnology Scares

Today, the Neue Zuericher Zeitung published an interesting article (German language) about how immature the research into health risks potentially caused by nano particles is.

Poor Quality Of Health Risk Research

To summarize the above newspaper article:

·     Claims are being made that not enough funds are available for research into health risks

·    There are only few experts so far in the field of toxicology of nanotechnology

·   Almost any research is published in this field, therefore it attracts incompetent newcomers

·    Published research by far does not yet meet strict criteria of scientific research procedures. E.g. researchers in the field abuse overdosing of nano particles; some research reports lack positive control tests and so on

Conclusion

If you see an article published about purported dangers of nanotechnology, take it with a big grain of salt.