Environmental Toxicology and the Precautionary Principle

Sally Kohn: The idea that something natural is inherently safer than something synthetic is something I yell a lot about. She says when environmental toxicologists see something that says there's no chemicals in it, you must just absolutely want to hate yourself in the face. "When dollars are at stake, sense kind of goes out the window and straight into a stream," she says.

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