{"id":7617,"date":"2008-12-09T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2008-12-09T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:05:33","slug":"dioxin-the-coverup-is-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/dioxin\/dioxin-the-coverup-is-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Dioxin: The coverup is the story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

It’s been a while since we covered dioxin at Planet Waves but today seemed like a good day to resume (see story below). Dioxin was my last major gig before becoming an astrologer, and in many ways the lack of concern over such a truly crucial issue is what led me to become an astrologer. There is only so much you can stand people not caring; finding every reason to deny the dangers of something that is a profound source of both hormonal damage, and emotional stress.<\/p>\n

To sum it up, with dioxin, the coverup is the story. If you are interested in learning a little more, I would point you to three articles published on our sister website, Dioxin Dorms<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first is one of my favorite articles ever written, called See No Evil<\/strong><\/a> by Vicky Monks. it appeared in the June 1993 edition of American Journalism Review<\/em>. This article tells you most of why you don’t hear about dioxin in the news; and why the public is so ignorant to the reality of the situation.<\/p>\n

Next is called Dioxin Critic Sued<\/strong><\/a>, which I wrote the next year for a journal called Lies of our Times<\/em>. This is officially the hardest article I ever wrote: sorting out these issues and doing my best to make them clear. It took months to research and write — and I knew what I was doing at the time, having been immersed in the issues for more than two years, every day.<\/p>\n

Last, here is a piece from the very early days of my involvement with chlorine issues, called Safe or Sorry?<\/strong><\/a> From this you can see that the lies, denial and conscious confusion of the issue is as normal as insecticide on a golf course. It’s always the same thing. A contamination incident happens and then someone official comes out and says how safe it is. But if it’s so safe, why are they recalling the pigs?<\/p>\n

Yours & truly,<\/p>\n

Eric Francis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since we covered dioxin at Planet Waves; it was my last major gig before becoming an astrologer, and in many ways the lack of concern over such a truly crucial issue is what led me to become an astrologer. There is only so much you can stand people not caring; finding every reason to deny the dangers of something that is a profound source of both hormonal damage, and emotional stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[1800,52,764,35,765],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}