The Hudson River is Dumbing Us Down - ft. Tom Zoeller

The history of companies dumping chemicals into public water is not a short one, yet the incidence of GE depositing PCBs into the Hudson River is an especially egregious example. PCBs, like the ones that millions of New Yorkers were exposed to through this event, have the potential to impact the thyroid hormone. Dr. Tom Zoeller knows a lot about thyroid hormone's function and influence on brain development, and he joins us to discuss how chemicals like PCBs can disrupt it.