Billions of dollars are misspent, and people's lives altered forever. Defoliant Agent Orange. These names arouse fear because of the chemical dioxin. Dioxin is very poisonous. We know that from animal tests.
Tiny amounts kill guinea pigs.
Stossel proceeds to argue that dioxin isn't harmful, and that cases such as Love Canal are based on faulty science. The Environmental Protection Agency begs to differ. His main source for the piece, incidentally, was Michael Fumento, a Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute. To be fair to Stossel, these connected dots do not prove he is for sale. It would be too easy to demonize him as an unprincipled hack for business interests.