Writing in the Guardian on 23rd September 2008, columnist George Monbiot takes the Telegraph columnsit Christopher Booker to task over his misleading articles, (38 of them so far), where he claims that chrysotile asbestos, (white asbestos) is safe.
He wrote 'Mr Booker champions the work of John Bridle, who has described himself as "the world's foremost authority on asbestos science". Bridle has claimed to possess an honorary professorship from the Russian Academy of Sciences, to be a consultant to an institute at the University of Glamorgan, the chief asbestos consultant for an asbestos centre in Lisbon, and a consultant to Vale of Glamorgan trading standards department. None of these claims is true. Neither the institute at the University of Glamorgan nor the centre in Lisbon have ever existed. His only relationship with the Glamorgan trading standards department is to have been successfully prosecuted by it for claiming a qualification he does not possess.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/23/controversiesinscience.health
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