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"Chemical Nation," Mariah Blake, Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism, Harvard

The Bernard Nossiter '47 Lecture: How Americans Became Guinea Pigs in a Vast, Haphazard Chemistry Experiment.

5/19/2016
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Mariah Blake is a Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Columbia Journalism Review, Foreign Policy, Mother Jones, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. She’s currently working on a book about plastics.

The Bernard D. Nossiter '47 Lecture will:

  • Explore how the chemical industry pioneered the tactics and policy framework that were later used by other industries--including Big Tobacco--to wage war on science and thwart regulation.
  • Show how the industry continues to deploy these strategies to cover up the potentially catastrophic health effects of thousands of everyday products.
For more information, contact:
Joanne Needham
joanne.b.needham@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2207
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