America's Hidden Epidemic: An Interview with Arnold Mann

In this exclusive interview with Accuracy in Media (AIM), Mann details and builds the case for the commonality of chronic, disabling symptoms that have stricken all these people, from the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who came back sick from the first Gulf War in 1991, and who are still sick, to the thousands who participated in last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and who are now turning up sick with the same symptoms. Then there are the victims of toxic mold in buildings throughout the country, and the Hurricane Katrina victims still sick from exposure to formaldehyde in the FEMA trailers. What all these people have in common, according to Mann, is that they are all suffering from a very real illness—not psychosomatic disorders, as many would have us believe. What we are witnessing, Mann says, is the emergence of an entirely new disease paradigm, caused by environmental conditions, which have largely been covered up and ignored by industries, such as oil and insurance; by government, including every president of the past 30 years and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Veterans Administration (VA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); and finally the media, which have failed to connect the dots in the manner that Mann has done in this powerful new book. As many of you are aware, AIM has frequently been very skeptical of claims by environmental groups that might be categorized as junk science, everything from Alar to DDT to global warming, and many more. Reed Irvine, AIM’s founder and chairman was a thorough and analytical debunker of many of the claims by media and left-wing advocacy groups posing as conscientious environmentalists. But in this case, I have known the author personally as well as professionally over the past 30 years, and he has no political agenda in writing this book. It is thoroughly researched by someone who has studied medical research reports for decades, and interviewed hundreds of doctors for various publications, and is scrupulous in his determination to get his facts straight. cover stories on the toxic mold threat in homes, schools, and apartment buildings have made him a leading reporter in the environmental health field. He has also been a contributing writer for various publications of the National Institutes of Health, and in 2005 he served as the personal writer of Dr.

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Dr. James MacLean from Asthma & Allergy Affiliates highlighted in a Nov. 8 report that the child "is currently living in housing that has significant mold contamination. It sounds as though there is mold that is visible on the ceilings and walls throughout the apartment. The apartment is also infested with mice. Where there are a variety of triggers for reactive airway disease, certainly exposure to molds, irritants and animal dander in the environment are contributing to his need for additional medication."

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