Monday, March 27, 2017

The Neighborhood Toxicologist has evolved!

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Please join me at my new site, Evolution in a Toxic World.   (I will no longer be checking or posting content to this site.) Model K...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Dear Mr. Pruitt, let's talk about lead

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Dear Mr. Pruitt, Last week I wrote to you about DDT. This week let’s consider lead. Like DDT, another jaw-dropper for my environmental to...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Dear Mr. Pruitt, today we talked about DDT

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Dear Mr. Pruitt, I teach an introductory environmental toxicology class to undergraduate public health majors. Each week we talk about di...
Monday, January 23, 2017

About Twelve Percent

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Ok, I’ve had it. Too many times on the news, I’ve heard something like this, “after all, 53% of white women voted for Donald Trump.” Or, ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Trump's war on science, a shot over the bow

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I was hoping that maybe Trumps anti-vax statements would be one of those things he backtracked on (I have in my head the little tune fr...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Toxic Textiles: Book review of Fake Silk

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Book Review.  Below is an excerpt from my recent review of: Fake Silk  The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon Paul David Blanc, Yale Universit...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

An antibiotic alternative? Hope through science.

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Antibiotic resistance test. Image: Dr. Graham Beards A toddler suddenly becomes deathly ill. In the ER she is diagnosed with dysentery,...