Author Archive | Lewis Perdue

What Is A Stealth Chemical?

Stealth chemicals are those whose effects show up  as unrelated illnesses. This contrasts with known toxic chemicals like arsenic which are “in your face” poisons that can be readily identified by doctors and scientists. For example, endocrine disruptors such as Bisphenol A and phthalates from plastics are stealth chemicals because hundreds of scientific studies show […]

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Lewis Perdue – Investigative Reporting Experience

See also: Lewis Perdue, Co-Author Lewis Perdue’s investigative reporting experience dates from 1970 and continues to the present as co-founder of the Stealth Syndromes Project. His most internationally prominent investigative reporting came in Washington D.C. when, as a freelancer for Jack Anderson, he played a major role in breaking the Koreagate Congressional payoff scandals. The […]

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Original Sources: 84,000 Legal Chemicals. Fewer Than 200 Tested. Only 5 Ever Banned. Here’s Where Those Numbers Come From

The U.S. government allows more than 84,000 chemical compounds of unknown toxicity to be legally used in food, beverages, packaging, clothing, fabrics, personal care products, cosmetics — in any part of your environment including the air, water, or soil. Unattributed variations of that number  — usually ranging from 60,000 to 80,000 — seem illogical and […]

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat Farmed Salmon

By Lewis Perdue Salmon is on a lot of plates when people resolve to make healthy changes in their diets. Many articles have emphasized the benefits of fatty fish, citing the heart-healthy benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids and other micro-nutrients. Those benefits have been gradually narrowed down to salmon because other mild, oily-fleshed fish like […]

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Multiple Personality Disorder Splits My Tweets

[Cross posted to LewisPerdue.Com and WineIndustryInsight.Com and  for good reason …. read on] My current Twitter followers know me for my book writing Lewis Perdue.com (@lewisperdue) or because I’m the editor/publisher of Wine Industry Insight (@Vinoindustry). I’ve been meaning to let followers know about the @lewisperdue handle, but I’ve been lazy, partly because people in […]

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