AngryToxicologist is a scientist in the public health sector, knows plenty about toxicology, and is occasionally angry about it all. Drop me a line at tox@angrytoxicologist.com.
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What I'm reading, watching, and rating:
Saw
ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5
SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.
October 31, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
If you haven't seen it yet, USA Today is doing a series called "toxic legacy". First was lead, then mercury, and today, plastics. Well, really it's about BPA. We've dicussed BPA here before and I'm not going to rehash it....
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 11:35 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
(Alternate title: jerks aren't always wrong). Over at Moms Speak Up, Cristina shares her angerat a doctor that doesn't want to go along with a "modified" vaccine schedule that she made up herself. Over at Enviroblog (which I usually like)...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 2:45 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 16, 2007
Category: Media
So cancer death rates are going down. This is good. What's left out of all the news coverage is the question: So what's going up. Face it, we all die. The all cause, all age mortality rate isn't changing as...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:04 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 15, 2007
Category: Depressing/Infuriating
PUR water wasn't content with removing impurities from your water so they decided that they would put some back in...and then charge you for it! I am talking about PUR Flavor Options. No joke, after they filter your water they...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:24 AM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 10, 2007
Category: Toxics
Good reading for today: Ken Sepkowitz on why we should eat more excrement. Truly, he makes an excellent point. One other thing that he doesn't mention is that as we get safer the outbreaks that exist look worse and worse....
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:25 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 9, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
National Healthy Moms Health Babies Coalition issued a statement that women who are pregnant (or breastfeeding, or trying to get pregnant, or not trying but might be anyway, or dreaming about being pregnant, or know someone who's dreaming about...) should...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:17 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 5, 2007
Category: Media
Perhaps I should call this entry Mr Kawamura, CA secretary of the state department of Food and Agriculture, is a moron. Background The Monterey area has a problem with the light brown apple moth. Apparently it's been there for a...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:25 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 4, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
That hed refers both to the fact that I promised to post on this last week and didn't as well as the fact that there have been way too few studies of Thimerosal given it's controversial status. you have probably...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:39 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 2, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
Sounds like the hed from The Onion, right? Sadly, it's not. Go watch the NYTimes video (A consumer alerts the world). He started the whole toothpaste concerns a while back. What inside track did that guy use? He read the...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:17 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
