Controversial Phthalate Plasticizer Found Safe For Children’s Toys, Confounding Activists
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 13:10
in Health & Medicine
Bumbling coverage on phthalates underscores how activist journalism endangers ‘public science’Last year, campaigning journalist Susan Freinkel noted that she wrote her anti-chemical book, Plastics: A Toxic Love Story, because she was shocked about how much modern society relied on plastics. In her mind, “synthetic materials” equated with poor health, pollution and western gluttony. read more