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Cancer and the Environment
Environmental causes of cancer-pesticides, air and water pollution, chemicals in consumer products-has historically been given short shrift in the field of cancer research, but that may be changing. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) recently posted Cancer: Belatedly, Environmental Causes Get their Due in which they highlight a new Duke University study showing the changing attitudes about cancer-causing environmental factors among cancer doctors. It seems the medical community is coming around.
Like EWG, I welcome these new attitudes and am hopeful about what role they might play in helping to protect humans from the unnecessary health implications of unwisely used chemicals. However, I fear that these changing attitudes will have little impact on the larger issue at hand which is that true research has been co-opted by mercenary scientists. I am halfway through David Michaels' Doubt Is Their Product in which he describes a product defense industry so calculated that I am convinced now more than ever that real change will happen outside of the realm of science by the hands of social change agents. More power to all those in search of truth.
Monday, August 15, 2011
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