Sid wolfe came to washington, d c. in the 19 sixties as a young doctor. One day someone told him that half of the saline solution being supplied to american hospitals was contaminated with bacteria. He did his research, found out there were other sources, and went public,. got his friend, the political crusader ralph nater to hold press conference and the bad ivy fluid was pulled from the market. Sidney m wolf m d, versus me 30 years ago when i was a right winged lunatic. I was different then, which i offer as at least a small explanation for my behaviour in the story i am about to tell you. My
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s and ends with one of the worst public crises in American history. Chicken Little said the sky was falling. And sometimes Chicken Little is right.
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