A $600 million settlement
was just announced
for lawyers and their clients
for this fake lead poisoning
crisis.
Not one child was injured.
The water was sometimes
not fit for drinking,
but should people
be getting $600 million
from Michigan taxpayers
for that ?
Reprinted from April 2019:
When something unintelligible
is expressed with high level
mathematics, and appears to
be complicated science,
most people assume it's
“over their head”.
Too complicated for them
to ask questions.
Government agencies argue
that we should “err on the side
of safety”.
Then they base public policy
on tiny probabilities, that an
implausible event might happen.
The EPA manipulates words
and numbers to deceive the
public, and keep fear alive.
The public was fooled
into believing drinking
water-related cases
of lead poisoning
had reached
crisis proportions
in Flint, Michigan,
after the city
water source was
changed in 2014.
Flint is less than
a one hour drive
from where I live,
in Bingham Farms,
Michigan.
From a March 13, 2018 article
in The Journal of Pediatrics
(Gomez et al., 2018)
“Blood-Lead Levels of Children
in Flint Michigan: 2006-2016”:
“…changes in GM
Blood Lead Levels
(BLLs)
in young children
in Flint, Michigan,
during the Flint River
water exposure
did not meet the level of
an environmental emergency
… not a single BLL
from a child ≤5 years of age
attained a BLL
of 45 µg/dL (or greater),
the minimum level
for which the current
Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) guidelines suggest
initiation of
chelation therapy,
during the switch
to the Flint River
water source. "
"In addition,
no child was
hospitalized
in the area
for acute
or chronic
lead toxicity
during this
time frame.”
BLLs in Flint,
and the
rest of the U.S.,
have been declining
for decades.
During that time,
the CDC and EPA
have continually
lowered their official
“safe” BLL’s
(currently at 5 µg/L)
to keep the fear alive.
Any BLLs in Flint
that exceeded
those official
“safe” levels
were called
"lead poisoning"
by the press.
From the Journal
of Pediatrics again:
(Gomez et al, 2018):
“Between 1960 and 1990,
[CDC’s} BLL reference
concentration was gradually
lowered from 60 µg/dL
to 25 µg/dL.
In 1991, the CDC
lowered the reference
concentration to 10 µg/dL
and in 2012 to the current
value of 5 µg/dL.
This reference concentration,
originally intended by the CDC
as a tool to identify children
at greater risk of lead poisoning,
has been
frequently misinterpreted
as a definitive threshold
of lead toxicity, or poisoning.”
Forty years ago,
78% of Americans
had BLLs ≥ 10 µg/dL
(NHANES II, 1976-1980).
With no negative effects !
The concept of objective
adverse health effects
caused by measured
chemical exposure
( real science )
has been replaced
by subjective
“levels of concern”
( junk science ).
"Concern" can exist without
any exposure measurements,
or any adverse reactions !