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- catalog contributor b13001465.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Sec. I. Pollution. Can someone please define pollution? ; The good old days ... weren't ; Indoor air pollution -- is your home sick? ; Nitric oxide -- from pollutant to molecule of the year ; Global warming: the controversy rages on -- Sec. II. Chemicals -- the other side of the story. Chemophobia ; Poopophobia ; DDT: the real story ; The single molecule theory of chemical contamination ; Hormesis: mother knows best ; A vocabulary lesson -- bioavailability and chirality ; Nature's newly discovered chemical behaves like PCBs -- Sec III. Mother nature -- do we control her destiny? Nature, frail or force to be reckoned with? ; Species extinction may not be caused by pollution ; Killer rocks: please spend my money here! -- Sec. IV. Assessing risks and the costs of life. The precautionary principle -- better off staying in bed ; The cost of a life and interventions ; One in a million -- human health risk ; The EPA's fat chance -- Sec. V. Radiation and cancer risk. Radiation- it's what you think you know ; Radiation hormesis -- a little bit means a lot ; Cancer clusters -- shoot first, asking nothing ; Poverty is the worst carcinogen -- Sec. VI. The culture of the environment. Environmental indicators -- "Gimme the bad news doc!" ; Bad news is big news ; Scientists vs. journalists ; Environmental education -- breeding brainwashed activists? ; Statistics: speaking with forked tongues ; Environmentalism and cultural differences -- the "envirocrats" ; Environmental hysteria -- funny stories, serious morals -- Sec 7. The lighter side. Chasing the little white ball ; Noah -- a modern version.".
- catalog extent "xii, 207 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Challenging environmental mythology.".
- catalog identifier "1891121294 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Challenging environmental mythology.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Raleigh, NC : SciTech Pub. ; Norwich, NY : Distributed to the trade by W. Andrew Pub.,".
- catalog relation "Challenging environmental mythology.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "363.7 22".
- catalog subject "Environmental exposure.".
- catalog subject "Environmental health.".
- catalog subject "Environmentalism United States.".
- catalog subject "Environmentalism.".
- catalog subject "GE195 .D36 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sec. I. Pollution. Can someone please define pollution? ; The good old days ... weren't ; Indoor air pollution -- is your home sick? ; Nitric oxide -- from pollutant to molecule of the year ; Global warming: the controversy rages on -- Sec. II. Chemicals -- the other side of the story. Chemophobia ; Poopophobia ; DDT: the real story ; The single molecule theory of chemical contamination ; Hormesis: mother knows best ; A vocabulary lesson -- bioavailability and chirality ; Nature's newly discovered chemical behaves like PCBs -- Sec III. Mother nature -- do we control her destiny? Nature, frail or force to be reckoned with? ; Species extinction may not be caused by pollution ; Killer rocks: please spend my money here! -- Sec. IV. Assessing risks and the costs of life. The precautionary principle -- better off staying in bed ; The cost of a life and interventions ; One in a million -- human health risk ; The EPA's fat chance -- Sec. V. Radiation and cancer risk. Radiation- it's what you think you know ; Radiation hormesis -- a little bit means a lot ; Cancer clusters -- shoot first, asking nothing ; Poverty is the worst carcinogen -- Sec. VI. The culture of the environment. Environmental indicators -- "Gimme the bad news doc!" ; Bad news is big news ; Scientists vs. journalists ; Environmental education -- breeding brainwashed activists? ; Statistics: speaking with forked tongues ; Environmentalism and cultural differences -- the "envirocrats" ; Environmental hysteria -- funny stories, serious morals -- Sec 7. The lighter side. Chasing the little white ball ; Noah -- a modern version.".
- catalog title "Challenging environmental mythology : wrestling Zeus / Jack Dini ; foreword by Jay Lehr.".
- catalog type "text".