"Helen Caldicott contrasts a proper WHO report with the conclusions of a dubious book of which the New York Academy of Sciences itself says:

"In no sense did Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences or the New York Academy of Sciences commission this work; nor by its publication do we intend to independently validate the claims made in the translation or in the original publications cited in the work. The translated volume has not been peer reviewed by the New York Academy of Sciences, or by anyone else."

Misrepresenting this dodgy book as a "report published by the New York Academy of Sciences" merely proves Monbiot had a very good point to begin with."