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Whatever the case, the CIA's clout in Washington will not be increased by the controversy. The CIA already is under fire as a bloated bureaucracy still gripped by a cold war mind-set. It has been accused of discrimination against its female agents, and of incompetent handling of the...
"The epidemiologists can compare this [cancer] risk with, say, the risk of smoking," Ames said.
The common belief that hair dye caused cancer was based on a finding in 1975 by Dr. Bruce G. Ames, director of environmental health at the University of California at Berkeley. Ames observed that hair dye caused mutations in bacteria.
The results prompted companies to replace the mutagens in their hair dye products with safer alternative chemicals, Ames said.
Senate spanks CIA chief for his handling of Ames case fallout