This month’s Letters section includes a couple of scathing epistles taking me to task for my January column on Legionella.
This month’s Letters section includes a couple of scathing epistles taking me to task for my January column, which reported on a presentation by Richard Toder of the ASSE Legionnaire’s Disease Task Force at last fall’s ASPE convention reviving a theory that phosgene gas causes Legionnaire’s Disease (“Is Legionnaire’s Disease Caused By Bugs Or Gas?”). Any fair reading of that article would conclude that I was highly skeptical of the phosgene theory, but this is not good enough for letter writers Marx and Hodgson. They charge that even publishing such an article reeks of irresponsible journalism.