Mark Shapiro, an investigative journalist, makes the case on the Huffington Post about the need to ban phthalates in children's toys. Responding to the charge that he had abandoned journalism for activism, he argues: "My work was reporting the findings of scientists about the apparent havoc wreaked on infant's developing metabolism from phthalates."
But there's a problem: if you are going to muckrake with science, you need to be able to refute scientific evidence which doesn't agree with your...
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