“We routinely wrote scare stories about the hazards of chemicals, employing words like ‘cancer,’ and ‘birth defects’ to splash a little cold water in reporters’ faces. . . . Our press reports were more or less true . . . . Few handouts, however, can be completely honest, and ours were no exception . . . . We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment.”

Source: Environmental Overkill, by Dixy Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo, 1993, page 165.
Hardcopy: Copy of page 165 from Environmental Overkill.
Contributor: AIM.

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