The Cancer--cluster Myth
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thing seriously wrong with the Western Area,” the artist, Tyler Mercier, told the Times. “The neighborhood may be contaminated.” In fact, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was the birthplace of the atomic bomb, had once dumped millions of gallons of radioactive and toxic waste in the surrounding desert, without providing any solid documentation about precisely what was dumped or where. In San Ramon, California, a cluster of brain cancers was discovered at a high-school class reunion. On Long Island, federal, state, and local officials are currently spending twenty-one million dollars to try to find out why towns like West Islip and Levittown have elevated rates of breast cancer. I myself live in a cancer cluster. A resident in my town—Newton, Massachusetts—became suspicious of a decadesold dump next to an elementary school after her son developed cancer. She went from door to door and turned up forty-two cases of cancer within a few blocks of her home. The cluster is being investigated by the state health department. PE ER T ILL
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تاریخ انتشار 1999