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Save plastic IV-bags so they can save you
By Steven J. Milloy March 1, 1999, Washington Times Chemical companies have helped Americans attain the highest standard of living in history. But one would never know it from the industry. The least...
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Vinyl IV Bags: Media lose message
By Steven J. Milloy March 27, 2000, Chicago Sun-Times Deerfield-based Baxter Healthcare has been vindicated on a major health scare. But don’t expect to read about it in the media. It’s more fun to...
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IV-Bag Scare Drips Junk Science
By Steven Milloy July 19, 2002, FoxNews.com Question: When is no data all the data you need for a health scare? Answer: When the driving force is the insidious “precautionary principle.” The Food and...
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Consumer Watchdog: Vinyl Toys Are Just Ducky
By Steven Milloy February 28, 2003, FoxNews.com The Consumer Product Safety Commission did the right thing last week in ruling rubber duckies and other vinyl toys pose “no demonstrated health risk” to...
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Phthalates hurt child development?
Columbia University researchers are blaming child development problems on maternal exposure to the ubiquitous class of chemicals known as phthalates. What do we blame? Table 6 of the study indicates...
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Toxic crib mattresses?
Are babies being poisoned while they sleep? That’s what the radical green front group Clean and Healthy New York is claiming in a new report to be released today. But there is no evidence of toxicity —...
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Smock: Is PVC good or bad?
Wrong question, dude. A Plastics Today commentary completely misunderstands the nature of enviro attacks on PVC. After spotlighting the junk science attack on PVC, Doug Smock writes, … Engineers have...
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Exxon protested by giant yellow PVC duck
The enviros have gone quackers. Greenwire reports, Protesting Exxon Mobil Corp.’s use of plasticizers, health advocates today set a 20-foot-tall yellow rubber duck outside the oil giant’s Houston...
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Kaiser Permanente embraces junk science IV-bag scare
Can you really trust a health care provider that opts for political correctness over science? The Washington Post reports, Kaiser Permanente, one of the country’s largest health-care providers, plans...
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Perfume and cosmetics make kids fat?
The Mt. Sinai School of JunkScience tries blaming phthalates for childhood obesity. The researchers report, Overall, no significant associations are reported among children. Among overweight children,...
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HWGA: Everyday chemicals linked to obesity crisis -report
Chemicals in everyday items such as paint, plastics and mattresses are linked to obesity and diabetes, a campaign looney enviro front- group has warned Increasing exposure to the chemicals may be...
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Now Pediatricians Need European-style Chemical Regulations?
The latest, (yet nothing new) from Mt. Sinai’s Philip Landrigan: A Grave Lapse of Stewardship: Why Pediatricians Need TSCA Reform
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Common Plastics Chemical Might Boost Diabetes Risk
May, if, might, could, maybe, possibility, vague correlation, sort of associated… Phthalates, found in soaps, lotions and food packaging, may disrupt insulin production, researchers say High blood...
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Study links phthalates exposure to diabetes risk
I hope your nurse isn’t getting his or her medical news from Gannett’s Nurse.com
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If the food’s in plastic, what’s in the food?
In a classic case of leaping to unwarranted conclusions this associates BPA & DEHP with adverse outcomes when all they actually did was confirm these compounds are rapidly eliminated from the body....
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The shocking truth about Foxnews
That they’d run this story: The shocking truth about toys You would never give your baby a lead pipe to chew on or some batteries to play with, but those teethers, rattles, play yards, toy trucks, and...
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Will Mayor Bloomberg Ban Large Containers of Skin Cream?
Is Your Skin Cream Making Your Children Fat?
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Wary of Plastic, and Waste, Some Consumers Turn to Glass
Years ago greens pushed single-use recyclable plastic bottles because caustic glass cleaners used to washed reusable bottles were so hard on the environment or so they claimed. Now… Glass water...
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It wasn’t the soda after all, it was the plastic that made kids fat.
Study suggests phthalates may alter fat metabolism, influence weight.
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Phthalates make you fat? “Rubber Ducky”… with apologies to Sesame Street
OH! Rubber Ducky Your the one You make bath time Lots of fun! Rubber Ducky I’m awfully fat because of you! (bobobodeo) Rubber Ducky Joy of joy When I squeeze you you leach out cancer Rubber Ducky...
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