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- noun An irrational fear of
chemicals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Too much tort law, warning labels, and chemophobia is already predicated on such nonsense.
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"This kind of chemophobia is contributing enormously to skyrocketing costs in California."
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The greens have an alternative fear-mongering meme, called “unknown effects of long-term exposure” that they use to support chemophobia when dealing with these stochastic effects.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Personal Experience with Climate Alarmist Spin 2009
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When it comes to stories on so-called toxic substances, the public discourse seems infected by a malady worse than microscopic residues: chemophobia.
Jon Entine: Scared To Death: Toxic Debate Over Chemicals Threatens Risk-Based Regulations Jon Entine 2011
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When it comes to stories on so-called toxic substances, the public discourse seems infected by a malady worse than microscopic residues: chemophobia.
Jon Entine: Scared To Death: Toxic Debate Over Chemicals Threatens Risk-Based Regulations Jon Entine 2011
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It's becoming increasingly difficult for the public to distinguish genuine risks from chemophobia.
Jon Entine: Scared To Death: Toxic Debate Over Chemicals Threatens Risk-Based Regulations Jon Entine 2011
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Webster's defines chemophobia as the irrational belief that "chemicals" are bad and "natural" things are good.
Jon Entine: Scared To Death: Toxic Debate Over Chemicals Threatens Risk-Based Regulations Jon Entine 2011
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Webster's defines chemophobia as the irrational belief that "chemicals" are bad and "natural" things are good.
Jon Entine: Scared To Death: Toxic Debate Over Chemicals Threatens Risk-Based Regulations Jon Entine 2011
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It's becoming increasingly difficult for the public to distinguish genuine risks from chemophobia.
Jon Entine: Scared To Death: Toxic Debate Over Chemicals Threatens Risk-Based Regulations Jon Entine 2011
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The year 2011 will be the international Year of Chemistry and Time's total disregard of the fundamental and indispensable chemical contribution to the Pill is a good example of the sort of journalistic chemophobia and chemical illiteracy that merits correction.
Heidi Kingstone: What Happened to the Father of the Pill? Whitewashed Out of History... 2010
jmjarmstrong commented on the word chemophobia
JM muses upon the scenario of two chemists, who are in a relationship, simultaneously developing chemophobia and attributing it all to chemistry
May 5, 2009