Journal Top Ten, Columns-Asbestos, February 2005

TITLE: The art of perpetuating a public health hazard.

SUMMARY: In the study, the PR techniques that have been successfully used in the defense of chrysotile are reviewed, to forewarn scientists involved in formulating public health policy for similar agents, as to the tricks that will be played on them. The authors note that even after asbestos was shown to be carcinogenic, Canadian Public Relations experts assisted by their scientists exculpated chrysotile by deeming other agents to have been causal.

JOURNAL: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2005 Feb;47(2):137-44.

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