http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7360/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-takes-onfluoridated-water <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> In a front-page Home section story that is the epitome of liberal urban paranoia, the Times links up with the John Birch Society circa 1950s: &quot;Municipal water supplies like New York&#039;s are typically treated with chlorine and fluoride, which are possible carcinogens and show trace amounts of arsenic and other metals.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The front of Thursday's Home section is dominated by a photo illustration of someone in a white hazmat suit, accompanying Penelope Green's long article on detoxifying her home: "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/garden/27clean.html?sq=penelope%20green&amp;st=cse&amp;scp=2&amp;pagewanted=all%20">Domestic Detox: Cleaning to Extremes</a>." Here's the text box for flavor: "Your lovely scented candles are polluting the air and the shower's spewing pathogens. Now what?"<br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-takes-onfluoridated-water" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Environment Health FluoridatedWater Gaffes liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias PenelopeGreen TimesWatch Thu, 27 May 2010 18:34:00 +0000 admin 7608 at http://archive2.mrc.org