"Arsenic in food": opinion parading as science

Environmental Health Perspectives, April, 2005 by Bernard K. Bruce

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Editor's note: Lasky et al. were given the opportunity to respond to Silbergeld's letter [Environ Health Perspect 112:A338-A339 (2004)], but they declined; we omitted that fact when we published Silbergeld's letter.