If everything was made of clay, wood, stone, kenaf, and cannabis we wouldn't have to worry about fires and burials killing and deforming and poisoining us for now and forever: thinking about Agent Orange and atrazine, Dioxins and all the corporations making a quick million bucks on chlorine technics: power deforms. There must be a less deforming (disordering) way of making a living....
Corporate junk science plays an extremely important role in the public relations and regulatory strategies of the chemical industry. It aims, first, to reassure the public that pesticides and other chemicals are not a public health threat and are essential to economic growth and welfare. But it is also designed to create enough confusion and uncertainty among legislators and regulators, as well as the public, to preserve the industry's freedom to pour chemicals into the environment. The industry has been highly successful in pursuit of this two-pronged strategy, based in large measure on its enormous resources and consequent power over politicians, regulators, and scientists on the corporate payroll (as described in "Corporate Sovereignty and [Junk] Science," in November Z).
