William Havender
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William Havender was a consultant on environmental carcinogens and an adviser to Elizabeth Whelan and Frederick Stare's chemical industry lobby operation known as American Council on Science and Health.
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1985 Oct-Nov: He was a keynote speaker at Elizabeth Whelan's American Council of Science and Health seminar "Environmental Risks: Priorities for the Eighties" (The ACSH was an American Chemical Council lobby). Havender was then the a consultant on environmental carcinogens.
[He] gave insight on the need for proper use of animal tests and their benefits and limitations in assessing human health hazards. Dispelling the myth that Mother Nature is benign, Dr. Havender emphasized that there are many readily accepted naturally occurring carcinogens present in our food and environment.
"Risks posed by man-made carcinogens must be viewed in the context of those posed by naturally occurring carcinogens and evaluated accordingly.
"There has been instance after instance over the post two decades where phony health scares have been trumped up — Love Canal, EDS, saccharin, cyclamate, nitrites — which more considered analysis has shown to be without scientific basis. While the scares eventually die down, the economic and political residues they leave are lasting,"[1]
- Two seminars were held in Washington DC (Oct 16) and New York (Nov 13) both funded by the John M Olin Foundation.
