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| | CEI -- What Laymen Should Know About Everyday Issues in Science and Health (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Thus, it is important for laymen become familiar with some basic scientific concepts, because bad science — or a poor understanding of good science — can cause consumers, policymakers, and businesses to mis-allocate attention and resources away from where they are needed most and to waste resources on things of little importance. |
 | | And while it is a common reaction among laymen to presume that natural things are generally good and man-made things are generally bad, even synthetic chemicals — like industrial pollutants, pesticides, and dioxin — have safe and dangerous levels. |
 | | In her book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson wrote, "For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death." She prophesied a future where modern synthetic pesticides and other chemicals would cause epidemics of cancer. |
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