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Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health, warns that, "over the last several years the level of fear, misinformation and media hype surrounding the use of safe chemicals in everyday, household products has swelled to a level which we feel must be addressed in detail before this situation gets even further out of hand," This position paper addresses scientific realities and dispels many of the unfounded fears regarding the safe use of chemicals. The report refers to those fears as chemophobia -- literally, an irrational fear of chemicals.
Unlike many ACSH position papers, Scared to Death is not written by a scientist or team of scientists but by a journalist. Jon Entine is a science journalist who is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). More often than not, I find myself in disagreement with the AEI and I have felt that much Mr. Entine has written on his favorite subject of human genetics has overestimated the power of genetic determinism. This report, however, offers a well resoned analysis and debunking of a lot of silly pseudoscience that has been widely disseminated on the internet and through the mainstream media.
