Now that you know that corporations have a nasty habit of manufacturing doubt about the harms caused by their products, I wanted to give you some background to help you understand how that game is played. Unfortunately, doubt is a very easy product to create. As Dr. David Michaels (the current director of OSHA) says in his book, Doubt is Their Product, “Scientists do not have the truth; we seek the truth. We do not deal in absolute certainties Read More...

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In April, 2010, Suzanne H. Reuben of the President’s Cancer Panel issued a report that addresses the rising concerns over the 200,000 chemicals Read More...