Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Says Phthalates Do Not Pose a Risk to Health
Analyzing the media’s coverage of the risk from phthalates, a family of oil-like chemicals that make plastics flexible, for STATS has, arguably, been one of the most challenging and frustrating...
View ArticleGreenpeace Worries About Gender-Bending Xboxes, Wiis and Playstations:...
It’s tested dildos; it’s examined laptops and iPhones; there is, it seems, nothing Greenpeace won’t do to protect people from chemicals in consumer products; and now it’s out to save the legions of...
View ArticleTimes Ignores Science, Calls for Ban on BPA
There are moments when you wonder whether the world is going insane over the wrong health risks. Take BPA. There is no study showing that BPA harms humans or that BPA leaching from baby bottles poses...
View ArticleBPA Baby Bottle Scare: Fear is Taking Over Society, Says Mom
Spiked Online, the spunky, skeptical British publication dedicated, in its own words, to “waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and...
View ArticleEnviro Psycho! Embarrassing Disclosure in Poisonous Shower Curtain Scare
Some chemicals just keep on giving and giving to the poisoned well of urban nightmares. The latest attempt to wring a health scare out of phthalates (indicted by environmental activists as presenting a...
View ArticleGreenpeace Urges Americans to Lie to Congress
Greenpeace’s “Action Center” provides concerned citizens with an opportunity to lobby congress to ban phthalates in children’s toys. The reason is that the environmental advocacy organization wants...
View ArticleEuropean Union Scientists Say Bisphenol A is Safe; Criticizes U.S. and Canada...
The European Union’s Food Safety Authority reaffirmed the findings of its 2006 risk assessment on Bisphenol A (BPA) last week. As with the 2006 risk assessment, the focus was on the risk to children:...
View ArticleVinyl window shades are not going to make you fat
Increasingly, environmental journalism is taking on the color of naivity. Take this entry in Plenty Magazine’s “Your Daily Green Bit,” written by Jessica A. Knoblauch, which focuses on the risks of...
View ArticleYet another risk assessment finds BPA safe
While the media continues to report activist fears over chemicals in plastics, another risk assessment buttresses the overwhelming consensus in science that the chemical is safe. “An expert panel led...
View ArticleAbnormal penises not on the rise, says new study
It has become an article of faith among the ‘plastics are poisoning us’ posse that exposure to one or several members of the phthalate family can lead to abnormal genital development in babies. But...
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