Blythe Terrell

There have also been reports of people being in like really tight spaces with this stuff, with this tear gas.

Ugh.

Even babies.

There was a story about a family.

They said they were in their car and that agents rolled a tear gas canister under the car.

And it went off and it, like, filled up their car.

They had multiple kids in there, including a six-month-old baby.

And the baby was having trouble breathing.

They had to give CPR.

They had to go to the hospital.

Oh, my God.

So I asked Jennifer about that.

But this, like, speaks to one of the other things that Jennifer pointed out about tear gas, right?

So there's a lot of science that we just don't have.

And that's partly because a lot of the studies of like tear gases effects on people are from people in the military who are exposed as a part of training.

So like that's likely to be a particular group of people, young, healthy, probably predominantly dudes.

Right.

In fact, I mean, there's just so much we don't know about this stuff.

Like, we have some data on how much it takes to kill animals in the lab with these chemicals.

But there's a ton that we don't know about, like, what it does to people, which is actually the main focus of one of the papers that Jennifer and her colleagues ended up writing.