An excerpt of interest:

Science For Hire


Stauber tells the amazing story of how leaded gas came to be. In 1922, General Motors discovered that adding lead to gasoline gave cars more horsepower.


When there was some concern about safety, GM paid the Bureau of Mines to do some fake "testing" and publish "research" that "proved" that inhalation of lead was harmless. This is where Charles Kettering comes in.


Founder of the world famous Sloan-Kettering Memorial Institute for medical research, Charles Kettering also happened to be an executive with General Motors.


By some strange coincidence, we soon have the Sloan Kettering Institute issuing scientific reports stating that lead occurs naturally in the body and that the body has a way of eliminating low level exposure.


Through its association with PR giant Hill & Knowlton and The Industrial Hygiene Foundation, Sloane Kettering opposed all anti-lead research for years. ("Trust Us We're Experts" p. 92). For the next 60 years more and more gasoline became leaded, until by the '70s, 90% of our gasoline was leaded.


Finally it became too obvious to hide that lead was a major carcinogen, and leaded gas was finally phased out in the late '80s. But during those 60 years, it is estimated that some 30 million tons of lead were released in vapor form onto American streets and highways. 30 million tons.

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BTW, Noam Chomsky wrote at length on the problem of manufactured consent and wrote a book by that name, as well.

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