Letter from Dr. Rex Wilson Regarding Acroosteolysis The health effects of manufacturing plastics is one of the topics considered in The Modern Threat of Plastics, the second e-seminar in the series The Politics of Pollution, by Professors David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz. When the bone disease acroosteolysis appeared in a B.F. Goodrich plant in the mid-1960s, company physician Rex Wilson wrote a colleague and advised a quiet investigation of the problem.