is this book poison?

August 28th, 2008 at 02:02am Jennie Pollock

people like to make fun of moms who are paranoid about plastic or unsafe toys from china.

and they like to pick on books like this: “poisoned profits: the toxic assault on our children” by philip and alice shabecoff, which i heard about here.

i’m no scientist, but you never know what might the impact of chemicals in our society.

Philip, chief environmental correspondent for The New York Times for 14 years, and Alice, a freelance journalist, present detailed evidence showing that children are 10 times more vulnerable than adults to cancer-causing chemicals and accumulate half of their lifetime risk of cancer by age two.

of course, there are critics, but what should be surprising but isn’t: the low nmber of stories i found, pro, con or otherwise, on this book.

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