Toxic Truth Large Print Edition: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead
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452 English Beacon Press The first book to tell the incredible story of two men behind the bitter thirty-year fight to protect children from lead They didnt start out as environmental warriors Clair Patterson was a geochemist focused on determining.. .. the age of the Earth Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-city children But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward. they met a common lead It was literally everywhere-in gasoline and paint. of course. but also in water pipes and food cans. toothpaste tubes and toys. ceramics and cosmetics. jewelry and batteries. Though few people worried about it at the time. lead was also toxic. In Toxic Truth. journalist Lydia Denworth tells the little-known stories of these two men who were among the first to question the wisdom of filling the world with such a harmful metal. Denworth ...