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About Paul Brodeur

Paul Adrian Brodeur Jr. was an American investigative science writer and author, whose writings have appeared in The New Yorker, where he began as a staff writer in 1958. He lived on Cape Cod. For nearly two decades he researched and wrote about the health hazards of asbestos. He also wrote about the dangers of household detergents, the depletion of the ozone layer, microwave radiation and electromagnetic fields from power lines.