Chemophobia

Too much tort law, warning labels, and chemophobia is already predicated on such nonsense. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"This kind of chemophobia is contributing enormously to skyrocketing costs in California." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Webster's defines chemophobia as the irrational belief that "chemicals" are bad and "natural" things are good. ❋ Jon Entine (2011)

It's becoming increasingly difficult for the public to distinguish genuine risks from chemophobia. ❋ Jon Entine (2011)

When it comes to stories on so-called toxic substances, the public discourse seems infected by a malady worse than microscopic residues: chemophobia. ❋ Jon Entine (2011)

The greens have an alternative fear-mongering meme, called “unknown effects of long-term exposure” that they use to support chemophobia when dealing with these stochastic effects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The year 2011 will be the international Year of Chemistry and Time's total disregard of the fundamental and indispensable chemical contribution to the Pill is a good example of the sort of journalistic chemophobia and chemical illiteracy that merits correction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Phthalatophobia, a subcategory of chemophobia (the fear of chemicals), led the media to make all sorts of remarkable claims in 2007, none more ballsy, perhaps, than Time magazine's decision to advance puberty beyond the bounds of biological plausibility with the claim, in September, that inhaling phthalates from air fresheners could decrease sperm levels in infants. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This simple-minded equating of "chemical" with "evil" is an invitation to chemophobia. ❋ By De (2012)