Science Under Siege: How the Environmental Misinformation Campaign is Affecting Our Laws, Taxes, and Our Daily LivesFumento, a conservative science journalist, explodes the media hype surrounding such perceived threats as Alar, Agent Orange, dioxin, and food irradiation in this provocative, hard-hitting defense of modern technology. He exposes political intrigues and agendas that have led to the media's one-sided coverage of Love Canal, fallout from video display terminals, electromagnetic fields, and other issues. |
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User Review - RandyStafford - LibraryThingMy reactions to reading this book in 1993. An informative book packed with a lot of information on why dioxin, electromagnetic fields, and Agent Orange are not the dangers the media and ... Read full review
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Contents
The Politics | 45 |
A Fairly Brief Nonboring Lesson in the Pitfalls | 78 |
The Most Deadly Chemical Created | 97 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Science Under Siege: How the Environmental Misinformation Campaign is Affecting Our Laws, Taxes, and Our Daily Lives |
| Author | Michael Fumento |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | W. Morrow, 1996 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | Jun 2, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0688147666, 9780688147662 |
| Length | 448 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / General |
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