Toxic Terror
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Book Overview
Whelan rigorously critiques widespread beliefs regarding our nation's health, food supply, and use of technology and chemicals. While bookstore shelves are falling over with alarmist books that claim America is being poisoned and that disease and death will be the price we pay for "the good life," the media has given little attention to the facts that Americans are healthier today than ever before and that advances in science are mostly responsible for this improvement.Toxic Terror rejects "the bad news syndrome" and examines the alleged evidence of adverse effects associated with technology. Juxtaposing the popular claims with the facts, Whelan effectively dispels the often-frightening claims made by groups and individuals who have failed to do their homework.Potent political-environmental issues include the DDT debate and the birth of environmentalism, Love Canal, the true story about pesticides, diet and carcinogens, asbestos and PCBs, air and water pollution, nuclear power, and more.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879757884
ISBN13:9780879757885
Release Date:February 1993
Publisher:Prometheus Books
Length:476 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Good book. Who wrote it?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I used to work for Whelan's American Council on Science and Health, which has been inappropriately influenced by funders, despite her denials. This is quite a good book. So well written that I doubt that Mrs. Whelan had much to do with it. I edited some of her writing and Toxic Terror is much better than anything that I knew to come from her. I suspect that it was ghosted.
An EXPLOSIVE book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
If you are tired of being lied to by the media, the anti-pesticide crusaders and the doomsayers...this is the book for you. Each chapter deals with an newsworthy item...and outlines the fallicies and frauds we are forced to endure. It's build on a solid foundation of "sound science" by a highly reknowned scientist with impeccable credientals. Go ahead...buy it, read it...it will shatter your illusions if you are willing to have an open mind. An OUTSTANDING book!!
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