THE . . Environmental Research Foundation . . P.O. Box 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403 . .
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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . These experts say that in the last 15 years environmental policy has too often evolved largely in reaction to popular panics, not in reaction to sound scientific analyses of which environmental hazards present the greatest risks. Furthermore, we got ourselves into this expensive mess because Congress didn't listen to the technical experts but listened instead to the voters. Since 1980, thousands of regulations were written to restrict compounds that had caused cancer in rats and mice, even though these animal studies often fail to predict how the compounds might affect humans. In other words, our problem is too much democracy.