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SEHN Science Director Ted Schettler will be participating in the California Breast Cancer Symposium, From Research to Action: Two Decades of Change, May 17th-18th. Schettler will be moderating a panel on the environment and breast cancer. You can preview the full details of the program by visiting http://www.cabreastcancer.org/symposium/program/index.php. By Carolyn Raffensperger Premises: 1. There are taxonomies of human health and disease. Taxonomies are conceptual frameworks that organize our thinking by grouping things that share characteristics. One taxonomy of disease is based on the system of the body that is diseased: the endocrine system, the cardiovascular system, the nervous system. Within those [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger This morning’s news carried this headline “Atrazine link? Doctor sees ‘ominous trends,’ but no proof”. The story is about the link between an herbicide called atrazine and a birth defect called gastroschisis. Babies conceived in the spring near corn fields sprayed with atrazine are more likely to be born with this [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger “So we break the spell by loving ourselves and each other enough to tell the truth. Our own experience, as inhabitants of an endangered planet, gives us the authority and the authenticity to tell the truth about what we see and feel and know is happening to our world.” Joanna [...] By Nancy Myers My colleagues and I at the Science and Environmental Health Network often focus on the problem of complexity in environmental health: the fact that multiple factors figure in health and disease, that these diverse factors often work together and create multiplying effects, that small assaults have cumulative impacts, that genetics and environmental exposures [...] By Ted Schettler MD MPH Bisphenol A, a chemical used in many consumer products, is much in the news and the topic of considerable debate. BPA has estrogenic properties and has been linked with a number of health effects, primarily in animal studies. Some adverse impacts in people are suggested by preliminary investigations. Concerns are justified [...] Carolyn Raffensperger Information about trends can be important scientific evidence, according to Amy Kyle, a scientist at Berkeley. In regulatory debates, the regulated industries want to limit the relevant evidence to studies that “prove” cause and effect. This means that information, like trends can be excluded. Trends indicate a change in pattern over time. This week, [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger On Saturday I sat on a straw bale in the front yard of the Garst Farm in Coon Rapids Iowa and listened to the geneticist Wes Jackson give a short history of Russian agricultural science. The occasion was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Roswell Garst, an [...] |
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