Slow Death by Rubber Duck...Yeah Right!

Overall I have read parts of the book Slow Death by Rubber Duck, the foreword, introduction and two chapters of my choice (The first one being pollution from past to present, and the second about Mercury in our fish).

The most notable passage was the mentioning of other awful experiments/people. "This is more than a book. It's kind of a big, unprecedented, adult science fair project. In the tradition of Super Size Me and Michael Moore, we investigated by doing." The passage is showing that they're going to experiment similar to the film Super Size Me and Michael Moore's documentary "style". This passage made me dismiss the majority of this book's blather, on the grounds that both Super Size Me and Michael Moore are both false and lies. I'd go into a entire discussion on why both are disgustingly bad, but I got an english project to do.

Overall my reaction to this book if it was not made obvious before, THIS IS CRAP! ABSOLUTELY BULLOCKS! For one thing, this book barely held my attention, i had to make a game of pronouncing the acronyms as if they were words~! I could make a list of books that are more informational than this garbage...and I WILL!

• Mein Kampf-Adolf Hitler
• The Communist Manifesto-Karl Marx
• Going Rogue-Sarah Palin
• Any transcript of Rick Santorums Speeches-Rick Santorum
• The Bible-Various Authors
• The Q'uran-Muhammed
• The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien
• Harry Potter-J.K. Rowling.

Overall I wouldn't suggest feeding this garbage to any further students. The main thing I'll remember about this book is how I shouldn't rely on hippies to give me enviromental advice.

Rage Face Source

So I'm in my english class. And Mr. is like "You'll need to read the intro, chapter one and two different chapters of 'Slow Death By Rubber Duck' and make a review of it with two other sources as well as yours". Well here we go.

One reviewer on Amazon didn't particular appreciate the message of the book. Dubbbing it as shoddy and easily refuted. "With credit to Terence Corcoran of the Toronto National Post: This book is a shoddy compilation of unproven science scares and junk science gimmicks.

Example: In all author Smith's dramatic fretting, he neglects to mention that the "alarming" volume of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA)in his urine was actually one two-hundredth of zero-effect safe levels. Thus the test results Smith and Lourie generate prove the opposite of what they claim. "

Another on Goodreads.com said "Wow. WOW. That booked really changed my life.". We can trust this source because we know what this persons life is like (note the sarcasm). She states the book has many reasons to be good. "What I really liked about this book was:

1. Factual information backed up by facts, investigations, scientific tests and interviews with the experts.
2. Personal touch - the authors subjected themselves to the chemical substances most of us encounter on a daily basis to see if it enters their body (yes, you guessed right - they did affect the blood in the most drastic ways!)
3. A chapter on each of the commonly used chemicals - PFOA, bisphenol A, phtalates, mercury, 2,4D, PCBs, triclosan - that get into our bodies via teflon pans, plastic baby bottles, heavily perfumed cosmetics, fish, anti pest treatments, food and even clothing....
4. Engaging style, excellent writing - easy to read (although less easy to digest and imagine the scale of the chemical sea we're all swimming in)"
She even thanked the authors at the end of her review.

Me personally, I dont appreciate the book, in the beginning it talk a bit of a enviromental law being signed, but they had to mention George Bush, did they have to take a jab at him? even though he has a more eco-friendly house than Al Gore? Also when they mention they going to be like "Super Size Me, and Michael Moore" I immediately lost all interest in the book. The reason being is that those "experiments are exceedingly biased and rigged to have a result they wanted. Overall I wouldn't read this book again.