| DDT Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy Thomas R. Dunlap Princeton: Princeton University Press, June 1981 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-691-04680-8 | ||||
| ISBN 0-691-04680-8 | 318pp. | HC/GSI | $25.95 | |
| Page 91: | "The campaigns stimulated public and scientific interest in the effects of broadcast sprays on wildlife. On the national level it triggered the first significant federal action..." |
| Number error: S/B "they triggered". |
| Page 94: | "Clear Lake [...] harbored a breeding colony of anout 1,000 pairs of western grebes." |
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| Page 97: | "DDT, they thought, might be a problem, but much more work had to be done before that could established." |
| Missing word: S/B "that could be established". |
| Page 123: | "In come cases opposition was direct, as when one governor forbade officials of the state conservation department to testify in a lawsuit against the use of a persistent pesticide." |
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| Page 124: | "[Senator] Ribicoff hit on one of the key elements in the regulation controversy. 'My thinking,' he said, 'it is that present pesticide legislation and regulation is based on the premise..." |
| Extra word: S/B "is that". |
| Page 124: | "[Senator] Ribicoff hit on one of the key elements in the regulation controversy. 'My thinking,' he said, 'it is that present pesticide legislation and regulation is based on the premise..." |
| Number error: S/B "are based on". |
| Page 257: | "This method depended on extraction of DDT 'intensive nitration to polynitro derivatives and the production of intense colors upon addition of methanolic sodium methylate to a benzene solution of the nitration products.'" |
| Missing word: S/B "by 'intensive nitration". |
| Page 257: | "The amount of DDT or related compounds could then be measured colorimetrically; p,p' DDT and p,p' DDT gave characteristic blue colors, and o,p' DDT gave violet-red color. DDE and DDA gave red colors." |
| Nomenclature: These designations are identical, whereas by implication two different substances are meant. |
| Page 257: | "Common cross-checks to eliminate this interference including using another method of analysis and running identical samples under different conditions." |
| Editing error: S/B "include". |
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