The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health
The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health Books
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In a devastating exposé in the tradition of Silent Spring and Quick Food Nation, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on the earth. A century ago in 1906, when Congress enacted the Pure Food and Drug Act, Americans were promised “better living through chemistry.” Fitzgerald provides overwhelming evidence to shatter this myth, and many others perpetrated by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed foods industries. In the face of this national health crisis, Fitzgerald also presents informed and matter-of-fact suggestions for what we can do to turn the tide and live healthier lives.
Consider this:
• The average American carries a “body burden” of 700 synthetic chemicals
• Chemicals in tap water can cause reproductive abnormalities and hermaphroditic birth
• A 2005 study of lactating women in eighteen U.S. states found perchlorate (a toxic component of rocket fuel) in practically every mother’s breast milk
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Randall Fitzgerald is a senior editor of Phenomena magazine, a publication which deals with extraterrestrial life and the supernatural.
Even as there is much that is vital to say about toxins in our environment and food supply, Randall Fitzgerald is certainly not the man to be saying it.
This is the most terrible kind of junk science–the kind that sounds plausible and well-researched (18 pages of sources) but draws unsupported, hysterical conclusions.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is just about the most terrible book I have ever read. Fitzgerald commits the ultimate crime in his use of junk-science malarchy and apples-to-oranges comparisons. Perhaps, when he buys SOME form of reputable science degree, he may possibly really say a few words with some authority. Until a sound basis can be made for the mechanisms and exposures that Fitzgerald puts forth, file this book below “fiction”. I am not saying that toxic chemicals do not exist. I am a Medical Toxicologist, board-certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties. It’s my job to study the toxic nature of chemicals and the patients who are exposed to them. But I do so in a reasonable, rational scientific make. As such, it just kills me that a joker like this can get away with writing such a book.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this for a researcher in our group so I am not the end user. I was told but that the reason he sought after these was because of the fit and comfort.
Rating: 5 / 5
When I was in college I was taught that correlation doesn’t prove causality. The author violates this premise time and again, using correlation after correlation to prove his hypotheses. Especially annoying washis claim that the increased percentage of deaths by cancer over the last hundred years was the result of increased environmental toxins. Not only is this argument based only on the fact that toxins increased and the the percentage of deaths from cancer increased, but the statistics are terrible, too. If the relative number of cancer deaths were constant but fewer people died of other causes, the percentage of cancer deaths would increase, even if cancer weren’t more of a risk than before. Many causes of deaths in 1900 are no longer threats, often because of the advances he decries (infant mortality from deaths now controlled by vaccines, women who died in labor, etc.). Clarify to me how your research controlled for this fact? Sadly, his points about the synergy of chemicals making greater harm are vital, but I will look to other sources for more in rank, as I did not find him credible. He seems to come from a perspective that ancient diets and medicines were superior. Basically, if you agree with him you will probably find a lot to like in this book. If, like me, you appreciate the historical importance of vaccines and penicillin and the scientific method, not so much.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have learned a lot and it gave me other resources that I was needing.
Rating: 4 / 5