http://www.asbestoswatchdog.co.uk/index.htm First, it was discovered that
the blue and brown forms of asbestos, amphiboles, had caused a major public
health disaster, leading to thousands of deaths. But this genuine disaster
was then used to demonise a wholly different and much commoner material,
white asbestos or chrysotile, which - particularly in its most widespread
form, as asbestos cement - has now been definitively shown by leading
scientists to pose no measurable risk to human health. Yet this confusion,
now in many countries enshrined in law, has been made the basis for two
immense financial scams.