Documentary film: The Idiot Cycle

Posted on Nov 07, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Media/Videos, Susie Collins

“Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.” -Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Watch the trailer for “The Idiot Cycle,” a feature length documentary about the link between cancer and toxic chemicals, produced by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia and Laila Tahhar.

Related: Our Midland reports on a new documentary that says Dow Chemical and other chemical makers are profiting from the production of cancer-causing products that are not closely watched by the government, and then some of the same companies are investing in profitable cancer treatments.

Local environmental advocate Michelle Hurd Riddick, of the Lone Tree Council, said she didn’t know when the crew of “The Idiot Cycle” visited the community to talk about chemicals and cancer that one year later she’d be in the trailer for the feature-length documentary and traveling to Canada for a screening of the film.

Hurd Riddick has long been passionate about seeing cleanup of The Dow Chemical Co.’s dioxin contamination in the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay. She spent two days in November 2008 taking the film crew around the communities on the rivers and talking about the impact of dioxin pollution on people’s lives.

Dioxins are a chemical byproduct produced as part of past manufacturing processes at Dow. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency labels dioxin a likely carcinogen, while Dow disputes that claim based on extensive studies of its workers around the world.

People walk, run and bike to raise money to fight cancer, but they often don’t think of what causes cancer, Hurd Riddick said. “Someone needs to step back and ask, ‘What’s causing the cancer in the community?’” she said.

Link to full report.

Link to learn more about the film.

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