Review
...adventure of a man who survived the despicable indignities of an intolerant system - survived because of his unique unconquerable spirit... -- Former Washington State Rep. Jolene Unsoeld
Its a must read. -- Joyce Riley of the "American Gulfwar Veterans Association"
You have amassed a temendous amount of critical information in Brain Fog, information the shrieks to be made public. -- Bonnye L. Matthews Editor of Defining Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Author of Chemical Sensitivity
About the Author
Bruce was sick and in his words, "A brick shy of a load." He knew how ill he was and he knew he was possibly dying. In 1984 at the age of 38 he began to study Environmental Science at The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. One year later he wrote his first scientific paper, "The Psychiatric Sequelae of Acute and Chronic Pesticide Poisoning." In October of 1985, reporter John Dodge of the Olympian, wrote in a front page article about his case and the paper he'd written saying that there was surprise that such a thorough investigation could be done by one with so little education. Thus began his odyssey out of the silent majority and into the field of behavioral toxicology.
In 1987, after losing his family and actually living on the street for a time, Bruce was able to prove that brain damage could be caused by chronic exposure to not just pesticides but to a plethora of chemical substances before a federal hearings examiner. Representing himself through most of the legal proceedings, Bruce's case set precedent in the United States.
Lecturing and featured in many more front-page newspaper articles, Bruce finally worked his way through college in 1991. Professors reviewing his work stated that he could be considered a forthright speaker, an authority, a world's expert, a pioneer in his field, and an elder in American society living the life ways of environmental philosophy. All during this time Bruce fed information to various reporters some of whom, like Cathleen Warren of KIRO in Seattle and RJ Peruman of KGO in San Francisco won awards for major market reporting using his research. He has also provided information to Newsweek and to CBS "60 Minutes."
In the academic year of 1992 Bruce taught Environmental Science at the Centralia College in Centralia Washington. In evaluations of his expertise students said of him that he was not so vain as to simply teach but that he inspired the "art of learning to learn." This, as Bruce says, was the highest accolade that any one person could have. The Veteran's Affairs Committee of the US Senate asked him to help with the investigation of Desert Storm Illness in early 1994. In March of 1995 he was asked to write a brief for the White House concerning the same investigation.
Yet Bruce remains a simple unassuming man, devoted father of seven grown children, grandfather to three and stepfather to an eleven-year-old son. He finds his pleasure in the soil of the earth, the wind in the trees, and the simple question why. To Bruce behavioral toxicology is just a job. His passion is truth.
