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Sperm and The New York Times

Posted July 8th, 2011 by

False news reports debunking the declining sperm count

Radiation in Your Children’s Water

Posted April 4th, 2011 by

Radiation now pollutes the drinking water in Tokyo, far from the scene of the ruined power plants.  Could that happen in the United States, with our 104 active nuclear power plants, the most of any nation in the world? In fact, it’s already happened, and goes on still, not the outcome of a unique triple [...]

First we are grandparents

Posted September 16th, 2010 by

The following awesome letter to parents and grandparents was written by Nancy Myers, who works at the nonprofit organization, Science and Environmental Health Network, www.sehn.org.  We are among the many people now trying to figure out how to stop the toxic assault on our children. If you, dear reader, have any thoughts, please comment below. [...]

What Every Parent Should Know About Toxins

Posted August 30th, 2010 by

To: Everyone in the San Francisco Area Here’s a huge and unprecedented opportunity to take action to stop the toxic assault that threatens our communities and our children. Here’s a huge and unprecedented opportunity to take action to stop the toxic assault that threatens our communities and our children. Right now some serious reforms to [...]

To Vaccinate Your Child….Or Not?

Posted August 26th, 2010 by

This article offers an impartial introduction to the otherwise hotly-contested subject of childhood vaccinations. And it shows how vaccines fit into the whole problem of the toxic assault on our children. Donna Curless’s three children were born and spent their early years in Brick Township, a mid-size, middle income New Jersey city whose rate of [...]

How BP avatars show up in your life (Part 2)

Posted August 6th, 2010 by

Part 2 Privatizing profits and socializing costs. Businesses are adept at passing along the true costs of their pollution onto the rest of us. Parents and the health care system pick up a tab of $54.9 billion a year for four childhood disorders: lead poisoning, cancer, asthma, learning and behavioral disorders. Special ed (half the [...]

How BP avatars show up in your life (Part 1)

Posted August 6th, 2010 by

Part 1 The BP Gulf oil catastrophe is not the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, contrary to news headlines. The hugeness of the blow-out captures our attention, but the worst pollution actually takes place here in our ordinary lives, in hardly noticed events that add up day after day. Of course BP gets a [...]

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Kvetching About Sick Children

Posted July 21st, 2010 by

Why do we write about, talk about, meet about and in general complain about children’s chronic illnesses in the U.S. when statistics show that, year by year, we Americans are living to an ever riper old age? That’s a favorite gotcha question, intended to squash or at least minimize the impact of the damage we [...]

To Vaccinate Your Teenage Daughter, Teenage Son, Yourself, Or Your Baby …Or Not?

Posted July 2nd, 2010 by

Part 1 As soon as a teenage girl walks into her pediatrician’s office, he will suggest another vaccination, to be delivered through a series of shots spaced out over six months. This time the vaccine is Gardasil, intended to protect her from being infected by the human papilloma virus, HPV, which might cause cervical cancer [...]

Kids in the Gulf

Posted May 25th, 2010 by

As the massive oil slicks from the BP Gulf spill advance upon shores and communities, everyone is worried about the effect on wildlife and the natural environment, but strangely silent about another unavoidable danger. Substantial harm to the children of the Gulf Coast is now unavoidable. If you can smell oil in the air, as [...]

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