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 *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html