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Valerie Mcclain <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 07:12:34 -0800
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In our discussions of toxins in breast milk someone posted that,"The
other side of the debate can be found at www.junkscience.com...It is
maintained by Steve Milloy, a John Hopkins educated epidemiologist."  I
did go to that site and found that it does have links to articles on
both sides of the issue.  But, I believe the purpose of having those
links is not to present both sides of the issue but to provide a means
to bombard environmental groups/government and its departments with
e-mails.  Nowhere could I find that Steve Milloy was an epidemiologist.
He describes himself as an "adjunct scholar" to the Cato Institute.  The
Cato Institute publishes a Cato Policy Report and its motto is, "22
years of promoting public policy based on individual liberty, limited
government, free markets, and peace." As a political science major in
college, it sounded like the Libertarian Party's motto.  Some of their
policies I read said, "the EPA needs to move from how many rats get
cancer from massive doses of chemicals to what realistic public health
benefit can and should be produced through regulatory programs that cost
billions of public and private dollars."  You should read their
discussion on the Tobacco Industry--smoking..the social benefits.  Or
their belief to make employees the direct buyers of health care.  One of
the announcements at this site was that Cato members could have the
opportunity to meet with presidential candidate, Steve Forbes.  Milloy's
criticism of one of the authors credentials is that she did not get her
Ph.D until she was in her 50's.  I was not impressed, nor can I view
this as a scholarly critique of the theory on plastic as a hormone
disruptor.  Rather, I see it as a veiled attempt by Big Business
interests to dismiss environmental concerns and use the power of
computer-generated mail to sway public opinion.

Again, if this theory that plastic is not inert and that the chemicals
in plastics are hormone disruptors, then it has enormous implications
for our environment and for us.  If anyone knows of a scholarly critique
of this theory(not a political rant), I'd like to see it. Valerie W.
McClain, IBCLC

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