New Web Site for Readers of “Deceit and Denial”

If you have been following the story about “Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution”, by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, you will be interested in a new resource that is a great adjunct to the book. And, if you haven’t been following the story, you can get caught up by reading about it here, here, and best of all, here.

Markowitz and Rosner have accumulated numerous powerful critics in publishing the book. As the authors have become drawn into vinyl chloride litigation against various chemical manufacturers, they have undergone attacks on their professional standards, ethics and integrity, as a way of discrediting their value as expert witnesses.

They are now replying to these attacks, by creating the web site deceitanddenial.org. A primary role for this web site is to provide to historians and other researchers (and bloggers!) with links to the documentation they’ve cited in their book:

Because one of the key accusations is that we inadequately and inaccurately documented our statements in Deceit and Denial, we will be posting on this site the documents we used in our footnotes for the scholarly community to evaluate.

In the meantime, they also provide a link to the Environmental Working Group’s Chemical Industry Archives, an excellent resource of chemical industry documents brought to light through discovery during lawsuits and FOIA requests. These are very important resources for viewing the dark history of occupational and environmental health in the U.S. as seen through the eyes of the chemical industry.

For me, it was worth seeing Markowitz’s and Rosner’s site just for the 309 page timeline of vinyl chloride history.

Thanks to Merlin for writing and alerting me to deceitanddenial.org.