November 01, 2004

EPA paying low income families to expose kids to poisons

Oh, brother. Missed it over the weekend; commentary later.

http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=3154

"An Environmental Protection Agency proposal to study young children's exposure to pesticides has sparked a flurry of internal agency protests, with several career officials questioning whether the survey will harm vulnerable infants and toddlers."

UPDATE: I was going to write a commentary on this, but a pediatrician friend of mine says it better. "It sounds too much like Tuskegee and the old hepatitis study of institutionalized infants in New York years ago. This is fundamentally unethical and I [will] protest vehemently. If things don't go well
tomorrow, we will probably see more of these kinds of things in the next
four years."

Posted by Dave at November 1, 2004 06:22 PM
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