![]() ![]() ![]() They wanted to know about that most toxic of all synthetic chemicals, dioxin, which, at vanishingly small concentrations, can cause developmental problems as well as cancer. In the audience were a number of pregnant women and, as I was getting ready to leave, they approached me as a group. And so my husband paced marble corridors with our son on his shoulder while I addressed a half-filled auditorium. In the end, we decided, as so many people did in those first dazed weeks, that since all possible actions felt wrong anyway, we should just get on with it. The drive to Manhattan from my office at Cornell took five hours even before the George Washington Bridge was outfitted with security checkpoints, and I had a newborn who would be riding with me across that bridge. My host said, frankly, he could not guarantee an audience. ![]() The talk had been planned months earlier, but it wasn’t at all clear, in the days leading up to it, whether the event would take place. A FEW WEEKS AFTER 9/11, I gave a lecture on environmental pediatrics at the New York Academy of Medicine. ![]()
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