Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health

Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health

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Toxic pollution has increased frighteningly in the thirty-seven years since the publication of Rachel Carson's seminal Silent Spring, and the chemical industry has become infinitely more sophisticated at deploying legions of lobbyists, lawyers, scientists and public relations experts who camouflage its deadly deceptions.Prize-winning investigative journalists Dan Fagin and...more
Paperback, 280 pages
Published July 1st 2002 by Common Courage Press (first published February 1997)
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Xiaomin Zu
A very revealing book. Monsanto again is putting profit in front of public health, Monsanto as a corporation has absolutely NO MORAL standard! Every should read this book!
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I bought this book because it wasn't at the library. I ended up just skimming it. It was way too technical and really boring to read.
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