
We need some good ones! Like this guy, he broke open and stayed on the Flint thing.
BTW, why aren't people, especially kids, in Flint getting EDTA to remove the lead from their bodies?
Nuremberg trials, anyone?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/magazine/flints-water-crisis-and-the-troublemaker-scientist.html
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Until
last year, the most famous case Edwards investigated was the lead
contamination of the water supply in the nation’s capital — still the
worst such event in modern American history, in magnitude and duration.
In Washington, lead levels shot up in 2001, and in some neighborhoods
they remained dangerously elevated until 2010. Edwards maintains, and
spent years working to prove, that scientific misconduct at the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention exacerbated the D.C. crisis. A congressional investigation
culminated in a 2010 report, titled “A Public Health Tragedy: How Flawed
C.D.C. Data and Faulty Assumptions Endangered Children’s Health in the
Nation’s Capital.” It confirmed many of his allegations, but the
experience was for Edwards a decade-long ordeal that turned him into a
reluctant activist — or as he prefers to say, “a troublemaker.”
For
television appearances, Edwards will put on a suit and tie, and the tie
almost always bears a picture of some endangered animal: a giant panda,
for instance, or a water buffalo. But on the morning we met, in his lab
at Virginia Tech, he was dressed in a black track suit and a pair of
running shoes — the uniform he prefers. At 52, he has the youthful yet
slightly skeletal good looks of an avid long-distance runner, which he
is. “Before Flint, I was running 50 miles a week,” he told me. “Now I’m
down to 27.” Running keeps him sane, he says, or at least saner than he
would be otherwise. More than once during his investigations into D.C.
and Flint, he wondered if he might be losing his mind.
“Before
D.C.,” he told me, “I think I was a normal professor.” In the sciences,
normal professors with tenure do not maintain websites on which they
publish incriminating emails obtained under the Freedom of Information
Act. Or habitually refer to unethical bureaucrats as “pathological lying
scumbags.” Or allude frequently to Orwell’s “1984,” Arendt’s “The
Origins of Totalitarianism” and Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” an
1882 political drama about polluted water contaminating the profitable
baths in a Norwegian town. Of his fellow tenured scientists, a normal
professor doesn’t say things like, “We are the greatest generation of
cowards in history.”
The "new" normal, we hope.
ReplyDeleteIt could get to be trendy. The corruption within our scientific community, ESPECIALLY as they relate to alphabet soup agencies....is astounding and obvious.
DeleteIt is no longer a "conspiracy"
The website of the testing http://flintwaterstudy.org/
ReplyDeletePlowboy
Mhaalo!
DeleteNever understood why lead was allowed in pipes, paint, etc.
ReplyDelete(well, except for the money to be made, that's it.)
" 1887
US medical authorities diagnose childhood lead poisoning
1904
Child lead poisoning linked to lead-based paints
1909
France, Belgium and Austria ban white-lead interior paint
1914
Pediatric lead-paint poisoning death from eating crib paint is described
1921
National Lead Company admits lead is a poison
1922
League of Nations bans white-lead interior paint; US declines to adopt
1943
Report concludes eating lead paint chips causes physical and
neurological disorders, behavior, learning and intelligence problems in
children
1971
Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act passed
1978
Lead-based house paint banned"
http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/History+of+Lead+Use
Plowboy
" By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
ReplyDeleteon August 17, 2016 at 5:04 PM, updated August 18, 2016 at 10:43 AM"
"FLINT, MI -- Preliminary examinations for the first state employees charged with crimes for their roles in the Flint water crisis can move ahead after a Genesee District Court judge denied a motion that would have required prosecutors to file more detailed allegations."
Plowboy
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/08/judge_lets_criminal_flint_wate.html
Great, the start of Nuremberg trials!
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