But is it true?: a citizen's guide to environmental health and safety issues
"Working with his students at a risk analysis center, Wildavsky examined all the evidence behind the charges and countercharges in several controversial cases involving environmental health and public safety. Here he lays out these cases in terms an average citizen can understand, weighs the me...
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1995
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Zusammenfassung: | "Working with his students at a risk analysis center, Wildavsky examined all the evidence behind the charges and countercharges in several controversial cases involving environmental health and public safety. Here he lays out these cases in terms an average citizen can understand, weighs the merits of the claims of various parties, and offers reasoned judgments on the government's response. From Love Canal to Times Beach, from DDT to Agent Orange, acid rain, and global warming, from saccharin to asbestos, Wildavsky shows how we can achieve an informed understanding of the contentious environmental issues that confront us daily. The book supports the conclusion Wildavsky reached himself, both as a citizen committed to the welfare of the earth and its inhabitants, and as a social scientist concerned with how public policy is made: though it is bad to be harmed, it is worse to be harmed in the name of health."--BOOK JACKET. |
Beschreibung: | VIII, 574 S. |
ISBN: | 0674089227 |
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adam_text | Contents
Introduction: Toward a Citizen s Understanding of Science and Technology 1
1. Were the Early Scares Justified by the Evidence?
Cranberries, Dieldrin, Saccharin 11
I. The Cranberry Scare of 1959 n
II. Silent Spring and Dieldrin 19
III. The Saccharin Debate 26
2. PCBs and DDT: Too Much of a Good Thing? 38
I. Which Regulations Governing PCB Residues Are Justified? 38
II. Is DDT a Chemical of 111 Repute? SS
3. Dioxin, Agent Orange, and Times Beach 81
4. Love Canal: Was There Evidence of Harm? 126
5. Superfund s Abandoned Hazardous Waste Sites 253
6. No Runs, No Hits, All Errors: The Asbestos and Alar Scares 185
I. Is Asbestos in Schoolrooms Hazardous to Students Health? 18S
II. Does Alar on Apples Cause Cancer in Children? 201
7. How Does Science Matter? 223
I. Is Arsenic in Drinking Water Harmful to Our Health? 223
II. Whom Can You Trust? The Nitrite Controversy 23b
8. Do Rodent Studies Predict Cancer in Human Beings? 247
viii Contents
9. The Effects of Acid Rain on the United States
(with an Excursion to Europe) 274
10. CFCs and Ozone Depletion: Are They as Bad as People Think? 304
11. Who s on First? A Global Warming Scorecard 340
12. Reporting Environmental Science 375
13. Citizenship in Science 395
14. Detecting Errors in Environmental and Safety Studies 420
Conclusion: Rejecting the Precautionary Principle 427
Notes 449
Index 553
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