The Fluoride Shell Game We've known for decades that excess ingestion of fluoride causes a long list of serious health problems, but now it turns out that what's in our water is even more dangerous than what has been
tested by government scientists.
Not exact matches
The agency is responding to a report written
by 12
scientists who criticized the
government's decades - old strategy for
testing the safety of many chemicals found in the environment and consumer products
Knowing of America's desperate search for new antimalarial drugs (
by then, the U.S.
government and Winthrop
scientists had screened roughly 14,000 candidate compounds), French military doctors shipped samples back to the States for further
testing.
One of the victims of the
tests was
government scientist Frank Olson (brought to sad life here in Morris's signature re-creations
by Peter Sarsgaard), who leapt from a New York hotel window in 1953 under the influence of drugs.
Social
scientists,
by contrast, are most often
testing the effects of programs funded
by government or
by philanthropic organizations.
Tests and offshore installment of equipment
by Rosneft for a major seismic survey began in late August, despite repeated calls from 12
governments, NGOs,
scientists and the public requesting to postpone the survey because of potential risks to the whales.
«Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed
by task forces of
scientists in laboratories and
testing fields... Partly because of the huge costs involved, a
government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity... The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars
by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded.