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Toxic Safety - Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health (Paperback)
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Toxic Safety - Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health (Paperback)
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Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants
are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the
chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use.
The tactics of each side have far-reaching consequences for how we
interpret new scientific discoveries. An experienced environmental
sociologist, Alissa Cordner conducts more than a hundred interviews
with activists, scientists, regulators, and industry professionals
to isolate the social, scientific, economic, and political forces
influencing environmental health policy today. Introducing
"strategic science translation," she describes how stakeholders use
scientific evidence to support nonscientific goals and construct
"conceptual risk formulas" to shape risk assessment and the
interpretation of empirical evidence. A revelatory text for
public-health advocates, Toxic Safety demonstrates that while all
parties interested in health issues use science to support their
claims, they do not compete on a level playing field and even good
intentions can have deleterious effects.
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