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Category: Media
The Good Analysts from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the FEMA trailers had too much formaldehyde (well, yeah) but also that it was due to cheap materials, sloppy design, and drumroll please, lax or non-existing government standards. It's...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:18 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
The Post really screwed this one up, not so much because they took a side on an issue in news piece (this is close to an opinion piece), but because it gets so much wrong and doesn't even address the...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 11:18 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
From the non-news that's news' department, Reuters reproted on a study that showed that ~15% of patients who took Sutent, a kidney and cancer drug, developed heart failure. Dr Melinda Telli presented information on 48 patients who took Sutent at...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:27 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
Everyone knows by now that the show Eli Stone misrepresents the facts about thimerosal and autism in it's fictional story of a lawyer going after a pharmaceutical after they put "mercuritol" in vaccines. It's clear that the story is supposed...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:43 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
In an Slate article critiquing Marian Burros' story about mercury levels in fish, Jack Shafer takes issue with the omission of any discussion of a review published in 2000 in Environmental Research entitled "Twenty-seven Years Studying the Human Neurotoxicity of...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:51 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
A reader sent an article from The Pink Sheet (an industry rag focused on Pharma). If you've never read industry-specific news publications, you're really missing out. They're really facinating and instructive. Sometimes you get early knowledge about industry trends and...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:46 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
Or so says USA Today on the front page, paragraph two (regarding sausage, bacon and lunchmeat). Of course they are contradicted on paragraph 8 by someone who says that "you can still occasionally have a hot dog". The no safe...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:42 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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
