"'I stopped and asked myself what in the world was I doing rubbing a neurotoxin like lindane over my child just because a doctor told me so,' she said. 'I'm a chemist and obviously should have known better and I worry about the other parents out there who just get their prescriptions filled.'"
"This substance has been proven repeatedly to be far too toxic to apply to our crops and our pets," said Laura McCarthy, a program associate with the group. "Who can possibly believe it's OK to apply it to our children's heads, which offer little protection to keep it from going directly to their brains?"
