June 24, 2006
DON'T TRY AND CONFUSE US WITH THE FACTS:
NY study: No environmental link to cancer (FRANK ELTMAN, June 23, 2006, ASSOCIATED PRESS)
A multiyear study of elevated breast cancer rates in several Long Island communities found no environmental factors contributing to the spike, the state Health Department announced Friday."The results of the investigation found nothing unusual," the agency said in a statement released in Albany.
"We hope that our findings will ease concern among residents in Suffolk County about breast cancer and the local environment," said Health Commissioner Antonia C. Novello. "This investigation represented the largest and most thorough examination of environmental risk factors that may be related to cancer in a particular geographic area."
Despite Novello's comments, a breast cancer advocate immediately derided the findings.
Because these hysterias have nothing to do with reality. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 24, 2006 11:12 PM
I'm expecting the same thing regarding the oil wells in Beverly Hills.
Posted by: RC at June 25, 2006 5:31 AMHighest abortion rate in the country IMMSMR.
Posted by: Ripper at June 25, 2006 9:00 AMA thousand years ago it would have been Satan's demons, and two thousand it would have been the gods' whims, and before that, evil spirits. My, we have progressed, haven't we?
And hasn't "advocate" become a synonym for a loud-mouthed know-nothing with a personal bias that can't be reasoned with?
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at June 25, 2006 12:32 PM