Word: carcinogens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the scientific establishment to which he belongs keeps warning us, every other day, it seems, of some new carcinogen that has been found in the air we breathe, the water we drink or the food we eat. Under these depressing circumstances, hypochondria seems to me not only normal but inevitable...
...pounds of plutonium a year. One pound, distributed evenly through the atmosphere, is enough to give every person on earth lung cancer for so goes the estimate of Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...
...staff found a successful alternative chemical, methylene chloride, which was used exclusively in the lab starting Thursday. The staff deserves credit for the quick action taken to find a substitute for EDB. But it was irresponsible to needlessly expose students to this suspected human carcinogen in the Tuesday and Wednesday labs...
Cranmer called for a better assessment of the risks and suggested that more research be done. Otherwise, he said, because of "current toxicological ignorance, we might act needlessly in an effort to eliminate a given carcinogen which, if the methods of quantifying risk existed, could prove less significant than a lifetime exposure from a package of cigarettes...
Caldicott, who now lives in the United States, emphasized the inability of technology to destroy, safely and adequately, dangerous nuclear wastes. The man-made element plutonium is a particular danger since it is both a carcinogen and a key component in nuclear weapons. She said in her speech, sponsored by Natural Sciences 150, "The Biology of Cancer...