Articles in “Taking Sides”

"Do Environmental Hormone Mimics Pose a Potentially Serious Health Threat?" Easton, Thomas. Taking Sides: Environmental Issues, eleventh edition.
Issue Summary:

• YES: Professor of biological sciences Michele L. Trankina argues that a great many synthetic chemicals behave like estrogen, alter the reproductive functioning of wildlife, and may have serious health effects - including cancer - on humans. (from: "The Hazards of Environmental Estrogens", The World & I, October 2001).

• NO: Michael Gough, a biologist and expert on risk assessment and environmental policy, argues that only "junk science" supports the hazards of environmental estrogens. (from: Endocrine Disruptors, Politics, Pesticides, the Cost of Food and Health", Cato Institute, December 15, 1997)