Think Pollution is a 'New' Scourge?

Think today's latest chemical scare accounts for the onslaught of children’s diseases? Think again. America has been swimming in synthetic soup since long before Earth Day was born in 1970 (think DDT, PCBs, PCPs), and blaming the “new” chemical-cataclysm for modern woes is just ignorant nostalgia dressed up as science with dangerous (and diversionary) implications.