Rogat+-+Playing+with+Fire+Notes

"Playing with Fire" by Hawthorne, Callahan, and Roe

Data drawn from:
 * public records
 * transcripts of doctors' testimonies
 * fires
 * laws & regulations
 * tax records
 * hospital records
 * following the money trail - for funding and donations to
 * records with CA lobbying regulators
 * calling people and groups to check facts/quotes on a website
 * interviews with a chemical company spokesperson
 * records from medical examiner's office
 * following up on a study by questioning the author

Future research: To educate the public and Congress more completely on flame retardants have research done on the science behind it and why flame retardants don't work. Then since babies are the most exposed do research on effects of flame retardants on humans and on babies. Article mentioned how the chemical makeup of flame retardants were very similar to DDT, go further into this to see how and what that means. This would hopefully put flame retardants in a historical context of how we banned DDT in the past. The goal of the research would be to further educate the public and hopefully prevent the chemical industry from pulling on public's and Congress's emotions when it comes to possibly another bill banning or decreasing the use of flame retardants.