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Chemophobic Misinformation and BPA

“Extent of Chemophobic Misinformation: Worse than we Thought,” by American Council on Science and Health.
We’d like to give a shout-out to Julia Seymour of the Business & Media Institute of the Virginia-based Media Research Center. Seymour recently conducted a content analysis of mainstream media (The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, and NBC news reports, among many others), identifying the scare tactics they’ve used to exacerbate the phobia so many people have of food-packaging chemicals — specifically in her analysis, bisphenol A (BPA) … Read the full story in ACSH Dispatch.