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The recent accusation that environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, are working to create a fear of chemicals in our environment  requires some clarification (Chemical fear mongering goes into overdrive, Congress Blog, Nov. 28).

Perhaps a grain of salt is in order, since that attack comes from Dr. Gilbert Ross, a physician who has been imprisoned for fraud and had his medical license revoked, a person who works for an organization funded by a roster of corporations with vested interests at stake.

Scientific findings on the terrible health effects of chemicals are indeed frightful, but to attack those who dare to talk about this science as ‘fear-mongerers’ is a classic case of shooting the messenger because the message is inconvenient to those who profit from these chemicals.

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