The major chemical companies would like you to believe that UW-Madison Professor Warren Porter is one of those kooky alarmists who are out to make your life miserable. Indeed, to say they view him as a pest would be a colossal understatement, acknowledges Porter, a scientist in the department of zoology.
“They’ve gone to the highest officials of this university to try to get me to pull my papers after they’ve been published,” he says. “Or to get me to retract things I’ve written.”