Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
"From oral contraceptives to estrogen therapy, Barbara Seaman has been exposing pharmaceutical industry cover-ups of drug health risks for 30 years," writes Linda Nathan. In response, pharmaceutical companies have exerted influence to get her fired from three different women's magazines -- Ladies Home Journal, Family Circle, and Hadassah -- where she wrote columns criticizing their products. Now vindicated by new evidence of the dangers of estrogen replacement therapy, she has gotten good reviews for her new book on the topic, titled The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth.