HWC DM acknowledges effects of chemicals on brain, ignores centuries of literature about sensitivities

Health Canada was working to protect persons with sensitivities and had, by this point, identified attitudes in medicine as a problem. However, management in the department was still focusing on debate about the ideas of doctors of environmental medicine instead of looking at more than a hundred years of supportive science and clinical experience with sensitivities affecting the central nervous system. Some of this experience was detailed in the bibliography of "Healthy Environments for Canadians" (1987), in Eugene Garfield?s excellent 1985 literature review, and in references provided by Ashford and Miller. The fact that the concern had become associated with the smoetimes whacko and unethical ideas and practices of doctors of environmental medicine was (and is) a huge distraction.