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Rx for complexity

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 [...]

Forgive us our (chemical) trespasses

By Carolyn Raffensperger

My environmental health friends have long argued that the fact that every last person, human and nonhuman, carries a body burden of toxic chemicals is a violation: it is chemical trespass. We were not informed. We did not consent. It is an injustice.

Environmentalists were working off of this equation.
1) Corporations discharged toxic chemicals [...]