New York State's Attempts to Hide
the Dangers Of PCBs Backfires
In the February, 1998, issue of the Scientific American is the article
entitled Politics
and PCB (ppg. 20-22). In this article one can read how a state agency
will fire one of it's own internationally recognized researchers with twenty-five
years of service in an attempt to hide the dangers associated with just
breathing PCBs. Billions of dollars in cleanup costs for local industries
could result from Brian Bush's report. The resulting "state investigation"
ends up exonerating the researcher's findings and substantiates his research
report by attempting to zero in on miniscule data point errors on three
of 6,500 points plotted and fails to refute the claims of danger resulting
from people's inhalation of PCBs.
COPA brings this article to the readers attention because this state
agency had the job of protecting the citizens from the dangers of pollution
in any form. This is not an isolated example of local, state, and or
federal government agencies attempts to hide the truth from the very citizens
they are charged to protect. |
