New Car Smell «

Pages
- About
- STATS.org
Categories
- Acupuncture (2)
- Addiction (19)
- Alcohol (5)
- Antidepressants (2)
- Autism (5)
- Avandia (8)
- Back Pain (1)
- Bad Science (2)
- Binge Drinking (1)
- Boot Camps (2)
- breast cancer (2)
- Breast Feeding (3)
- Caffeine (2)
- Cancer (2)
- CDC (2)
- Chemiphobia (1)
- Child Abuse (1)
- Colon Cancer (2)
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (6)
- Cosmetics (2)
- Data Mining (1)
- Dating (1)
- Demographics (2)
- Dept of Unworkable Solutions (1)
- Diabetes (9)
- Diet (2)
- Drink Driving (1)
- Drug War (2)
- Drugs (9)
- e.coli (3)
- Electromagnetic Fields (1)
- Endocrinology (5)
- Environmental Protection Agency (1)
- Exercise (1)
- Fertility (1)
- Fire Retardants (1)
- Food and Drug Administration (9)
- Food Safety (2)
- Formula (2)
- Gender Disparities (1)
- Gene Therapy (1)
- Genetics (1)
- Guns (1)
- Happiness Studies (1)
- Immunization (1)
- Intelligence (1)
- Internet (1)
- Investigative Journalism (1)
- lead (1)
- Marijuana (4)
- Mathematics (2)
- Meat (2)
- Media Drug Coverage (4)
- Meta Analysis (4)
- Methodology (2)
- MMR (2)
- National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (1)
- NEISS (3)
- New Car Smell (2)
- Nursing (2)
- Obesity (2)
- Outgassing (1)
- OxyContin (2)
- Pain Treatment (4)
- Perosnalized Medicine (1)
- PFOA (1)
- Pharmaceuticals (3)
- Pharmacology (1)
- phthalates (12)
- Plastic (11)
- plastic bottles (3)
- pregnancy (1)
- Pyrex (3)
- Quackery (1)
- Race (1)
- Reefer Madness (2)
- Regulation (1)
- Rehab (4)
- Risk (16)
- risk analysis (11)
- Risk From Driving (1)
- Risk From Flying (1)
- Sexual Harrassment (1)
- smoking (1)
- Social Networking (1)
- Soda (1)
- Sports Injuries (1)
- Statistical Analysis (11)
- STATS in the Media (1)
- STATS on Huffington Post (11)
- Teens (1)
- Television (1)
- Tough Love (2)
- Toxic Chemicals (15)
- Uncategorized (13)
- Vaccination (3)
- Vinyl (4)
- What's my risk (12)
Archives

MSNBC’s Offensively Stupid Headline (and story) on Car Safety

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Trevor Butterworth

Trevor Butterworth

Ok. Think. How might cars be dangerous? For starters, you can crash them and kill or maim yourself and others through careless driving or being drunk at the wheel. In fact, let’s stop there, as automotive crashes have accounted for roughly 38,000 deaths each year for the past 10 years. And that’s just the [...]

Filed under: New Car Smell, Plastic, Statistical Analysis, Toxic Chemicals, phthalates, risk analysis | Tagged: Fire Retardants, Jeroen Buters, Men's Health, MSNBC, The Ecology Center, VOCs | No Comments »

Measuring the Toxicity of New Car Smell

Posted on November 11, 2007 by Trevor Butterworth

Trevor Butterworth
Environmentalists have been warning about the poisonous smell of a new car for the past two years. But now that someone has actually tested the air, guess what stinks?… more
Originally published August 13, 2007

Filed under: New Car Smell, Outgassing, phthalates | Tagged: Automotive Plastics Report Card, Ecology Center | No Comments »