The tobacco playbook is alive and well, as big companies with profits at stake spin science to their benefit.
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the end of landline phone service, why you should never use a plastic cutting board, and how endocrine disrupting chemicals in consumer products can make your body do things it shouldn’t. Then Dr. Laura Vandenberg talks about her research on how big companies intentionally distort science and mislead the public to protect their profits.
Links from the Interview
Dr. Vandenberg's web page at the University of Massachusetts: https://www.umass.edu/public-health-sciences/about/directory/laura-vandenberg
Dr. Vandenberg's study on spinning science: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33771171/
Links from the News
AT&T is doing away with landlines: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/12/04/att-eliminate-traditional-landline-copper-phone-service-2029/76765766007/
Don't use plastic cutting boards! https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/june/cutting-boards-can-produce-microparticles-when-chopping-veggies.html
Endocrine disrupting chemicals: https://www.ehn.org/what-are-endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-2662337230.html
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