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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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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Times 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...

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BPA 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...

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Enviro 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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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European 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:...

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Vinyl 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...

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Yet 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...

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Abnormal 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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