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In 1985, Eugene Garfield, PhD, President & Founding Editor of The Scientist provided an excellent overview of medical literature about sensitivities. Garfield documents several approaches, as described in scientific and medical literature before the discussion was subsumed under debate about the approaches of doctors of environmental medicine. The human rights implications and lethal clinical dangers of subjecting sensitive patients to a reverse onus should be obvious to anyone familiar with the clinical and scientific approaches described in Garfield's series of 1985 articles and accompanying bibliographies. The irresponsibility of professionals who forward a self-aggrandizing revisionist history has very real ongoing consequences.

This report's 244 page annotated bibliography on environmental effects on health includes articles about reactions affecting the central nervous system dating back to 1908. The report and bibliography were written by Bruce Small and Associates for Health and Welfare Canada in 1988.

Children with undiagnosed sensitivities, along with other vulnerable people, are being injured and killed in health care. Canadian authorities and Canadian political parties invisibilize protective measures Health Canada was encouraging prior to 1993.

PEDIATRICS journal provides references about some of the consequences for children, including preventable adverse reactions.