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But Is It True?: A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues.
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Introduction - toward a citizen's understanding of science and technology. Part 1 Were the early scare justified by the evidence?, cranberries, dieldrin, saccharin the Cranberry scare of 1959 silent spring and dieldrin the saccharin debate. Part 2 PCBs and DDT - too much of a good thing?: which regulations governing PCB residues are justified? is DDT a chemical of ill repute?. Part 3 Dioxin, agent orange, and times beach. Part 4 Love canal - was there evidence of harm?. Part 5 Superfund's abandoned hazardous waste sites. Part 6 No runs, no hits, all errors - the asbestos and alar scares: is asbestos in schoolrooms hazardous to students' health? does alar on apples cause cancer in children?. Part 7 Does science matter?: is arsenic in drinking water harmful to our health? whom can you trust? the nitrate contoversy. Part 8 Do rodents predict cancer in human beings?. Part 9 The effects of acid rain on the United States (with an excursion to Europe). Part 10 CFCs and oxone depletion - are they as bad as people think?. Part 11 Who's on first?, a gobal warming scorecard. Part 12 Reporting environmental science. Part 13 Citizenship in science. Part 14 Detecting errors in environmental and safety studies. Conclusion - rejecting the precautionary principle.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Canan, P., & Wildavsky, A.
- Venue
- Contemporary Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1997-03
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 203
- ISSN
- 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1583624851
- Cited by
- 200
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 58.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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