But is it true? : a citizen's guide to environmental health and safety issues / Aaron Wildavsky
- Bib ID:
- 2188035
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wildavsky, Aaron, 1930-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1995
- viii, 574 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0674089227
- 0674089235 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Toward a Citizen's Understanding of Science and Technology
- 1. Were the Early Scares Justified by the Evidence? Cranberries, Dieldrin, Saccharin. I. The Cranberry Scare of 1959. II. Silent Spring and Dieldrin. III. The Saccharin Debate
- 2. PCBs and DDT: Too Much of a Good Thing? I. Which Regulations Governing PCB Residues Are Justified? II. Is DDT a Chemical of Ill Repute?
- 3. Dioxin, Agent Orange, and Times Beach
- 4. Love Canal: Was There Evidence of Harm?
- 5. Superfund's Abandoned Hazardous Waste Sites
- 6. No Runs, No Hits, All Errors: The Asbestos and Alar Scares. I. Is Asbestos in Schoolrooms Hazardous to Students' Health? II. Does Alar on Apples Cause Cancer in Children?
- 7. How Does Science Matter? I. Is Arsenic in Drinking Water Harmful to Our Health? II. Whom Can You Trust? The Nitrite Controversy
- 8. Do Rodent Studies Predict Cancer in Human Beings?
- 9. The Effects of Acid Rain on the United States (with an Excursion to Europe).
- 10. CFCs and Ozone Depletion: Are They as Bad as People Think?
- 11. Who's on First? A Global Warming Scorecard
- 12. Reporting Environmental Science
- 13. Citizenship in Science
- 14. Detecting Errors in Environmental and Safety Studies
- Conclusion: Rejecting the Precautionary Principle.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [449]-551.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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