ACSH staffers cringed last night as the first hour of CNN s Toxic America report broadcast its message that trace levels of environmental chemicals are causing myriad disease in America, from cancer to diabetes and more.
It was worse than I could have imagined, says ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, who was interviewed for tonight s conclusion of the two-part series. The most shocking part of it was that they recruited people from certain towns who thought that they were harmed by chemicals, and brought them all together to talk about how dangerous these substances are.
ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross agrees: Their segment about so-called toxic towns was bizarrely unscientific. When a physician bills himself as an expert and gathers people in a room who believe they were sickened by chemicals, taking a show of hands to see who believes they were harmed, there s no scientific basis to that whatsoever.