Hollywood is not known for its stellar parents. But Brangelina and friends could could teach the parenting industry a thing or two about honoring its best. When’s the last time you heard who won Best Parenting Expert? My point exactly…it needs some glamming up, but it could work. Of course, it’s also true the …
“Polly Ph.D. sounds like a hired gun from industry.” That’s what asking for more objectivity and accuracy gets you. That’s what I got for questioning media coverage of BPA limited to only one viewpoint – that our chemical of the moment, bisphenol-a, is a dangerous toxin that should be banned …
As much as it pains me to say it, the Wall Street Journal kicked some serious anti-science a** this weekend. Not often my husband’s conservative rag makes me wanna cheer. But Baby Bottle Red Alert, an editorial this weekend, is one of the more candid and refreshing retellings of the BPA brouhaha. The WSJ editors leave …
Two environmentalists performed “self-experiments” by eating canned food and rubbing Scotch Guard on themselves then wrote a book and called it scientific evidence of harmful toxins. Voila, national media attention, instant expert status. And somehow, by pure chance or a well-orchestrated PR campaign, the book bad-mouthing BPA and other household toxins came out just before the FDA announced its long-awaited opinion …
The safety of Bisphenol A has divided the public. I’ve complained about the bias in the media, their fear-mongering and just plain misinterpretation (“stretching”) of research findings. But it’s not just the media, even researchers can be less than fully objective as we’re reminded by Emily Monosson, herself a toxicologist and a blogger (aka The Neighborhood Toxicologist), …