The recent NY Times article on “Retracted Scientific Studies” shows that the system of peer review, transparency and reproducibility are working to keep the best science honest. But the system fails miserably when it comes to regulatory science affecting American public health. Public health suffers because nearly every study the federal government accepts for evaluating […]
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More Than “Yuck Factor”: Recycled Wastewater May Not Be Such A Good Idea For Toilet-To-Tap & Irrigation.
The current rush to highly treated recycled municipal wastewater in its present state is plagued by serious unknowns that are far more serious than the “yuck factor.” Indeed, recycled wastewater has been deemed safe by advocates for its use despite the absence of scientific proof. No peer-reviewed, published, independent, third-party investigations conducted to NIH standards […]
The Amounts Are Too Small To Matter (A Deadly Misconception)
By Lewis Perdue on May 25, 2015 in Featured, Hormone/Endocrine Disruptor Basics, Myths That Can Kill You
See also: This is why you need to be concerned about tiny doses of environmental chemicals like BPA Hormones are tremendously powerful. And yet, they have huge effects on your body and health at incredibly tiny amounts — parts per billion and parts per trillion. For example, this article published by the U.S. National Institutes […]
Recycled Wastewater In The Wine Vineyard: Unknowns, Health Hazards, Brand Issues
NOTE TO READERS: In 2012 Stealth Syndromes Project co-founder Lewis Perdue wrote an article for Wine Industry Insight pointing out in some of the dangers lurking in the current practice, theory and science of using recycled wastewater for irrigation of crops and landscaping. That first article: Toxic Irrigation: Major Study Indicts Chemicals Found in Recycled Wastewater […]
Toxic Irrigation: Major Study Indicts Chemicals Found in Recycled Wastewater Used For Vineyards And Other Crops
NOTE TO READERS: In 2012 Stealth Syndromes Project co-founder Lewis Perdue wrote this article for Wine Industry Insight pointing out in some of the dangers lurking in the current practice, theory and science of using recycled wastewater for irrigation of crops and landscaping. This article raised Perdue’s concern resulted in the founding of Stealth Syndromes Project […]
GLP Part 2: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science
See also: GLP, Part 1, “Good Laboratory Practices:” Obsolete Federal Science, Jeopardizing Public Health, and the multi-part series: Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” The average non-scientist would have no problem recognizing any number of once-useful objects and practices that are now obsolete in a modern, first-world country. That list would certainly include […]
GLP, Part 1, “Good Laboratory Practices:” Obsolete Federal Science, Jeopardizing Public Health.
See also: GLP Part 2: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science, and the multi-part series: Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” Federal regulatory science is flawed in many aspects, but one of the primary reasons lies in the outdated and rudimentary rules embodied in “Good Laboratory Practices” (GLP). GLP was created in 1978 […]
Why Chemical Safety Advocates Need To Be Lab Rats For Their Products
SUMMARY: Those advocating the safety of chemicals used in nail salons should volunteer as laboratory subjects to be exposed to those chemicals in a controlled clinical trial to assess direct effects on humans. A New York Times article on the dangers of chemicals used in the nail salon business — Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers — […]
Did Paul Ehrlich Prime People For Climate Change Skepticism?
Paul Ehrlich made me a skeptic. Not about climate change, but skeptical of over-the-top science activists and their imminent doomsday predictions. Paul Ehrlich made me a skeptic of all true-believers. The article below was the start of that because it made me a true believer, something I later learned to be ashamed of. But, […]
Secret Chemicals: What The Government Won’t Tell You, Can Kill
This article is one in a series. For the other articles, please see: INDEX: “Why You Can’t Trust Government Science” Most of the studies that the federal government uses to determine the safety of chemicals is conducted by corporations or their contractors. That work is done by people with financial conflicts of interest and […]