Violence on TV: An Unchecked Environmental Hazard

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Diseases caused by the environment — for some reason called environmental rather than envirogenic — are prime public concerns. Hardly a day passes without some pesticide, industrial agent, drug or apparatus being indicted as responsible for some human disorder. These indictments, however, are not without their dilemmas, for the suspect agent is often beneficial as well as purportedly harmful. Without pesticides, nutritional crops are at risk, without drugs, illness may go unchecked and without nuclear power plants, the economy may falter. Thus, society is forced to arrive at difficult risk/benefit decisions. Ironically enough, however, while chlordane is banned and aspirin . . .

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