{"id":249,"date":"2009-12-07T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/?p=249"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:00:49","slug":"toxic-ignorance-is-not-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2009\/12\/07\/toxic-ignorance-is-not-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Ignorance is Not Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to point you to a column, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/personalnature\/2009\/12\/07\/toxic-ignorance-is-not-bliss\/\">Toxic Ignorance is Not Bliss<\/a>,\u201d just posted on our website.\u00a0 The column is written by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/personalnature\/about-dominique-browning\/\">Dominique Browning<\/a>, formerly the longtime editor-in-chief of <strong><em>House &amp; Garden<\/em><\/strong>, who is partnering with EDF via a monthly column.<\/p>\n<p>The subtitle of the column is \u201cWhy I&#8217;m Outraged About BPA and Other Chemicals, and What We Can Do.\u201d\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a sample to get you to read more:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">We should be worried about what amounts to a huge, uncontrolled human testing experiment. 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