My reactions to reading this book in 1993.

An informative book packed with a lot of information on why dioxin, electromagnetic fields, and Agent Orange are not the dangers the media and environmentalists make them out to be. There’s a lot of detail on dishonest, crusading zealots and hysterical parents convinced they and their children are in danger from numerous things and plain sloppy reporters and lying reporters and terrotorial bureaucrats. Fumento gives examples of the victims – and victim’s mother – as epidemiologist, and the fact that Americans will tolerate just about any oppression, pay any cost, reject any rational idea if children are given as the justification.

Fumento also gives some nice lessons in epidimiology and logic. I found the section on gasohol the most eye-opening given that it was the subject I knew least about. I was surprised at how worthless gasohol is in every use – pollution control, efficiency, energy independency – its touted for. It exists solely as the result of massive subsidies and at the behest of people like Senator Robert Dole who are thoroughly in the pocket of ethanol robber baron Dwayne Andreas. And, yes, it does damage some cars which I didn’t formerly believe. A wealth of details here, but most, except for the stuff on ethanol, didn’t open my eyes that much – just give me additional evidence for my beliefs. ( )