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In reply to the discussion: Let's Be Accurate: The MMR Vaccine is Not Associated With Autism. But Neonatal Hep B in Males... [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)environmental research, because what do you do once you conclude the air or water is dirty and that is the cause? Close up the local industry on which you rely for jobs? Not likely. If you can identify a single pesticide or product, then you replace it. But what if it's the local petrochemical industry where everyone works? What do you do then? Nothing.
I am still trying to get anyone in my home town to care that our water is full of pcbs from an abandoned military dump and that this might be why our infant mortality in the zip codes along our waterways is higher than anyplace else in the state. We have a fishing ban due to the high levels of pollution--and our city council is trying to promote fishing tourism while discouraging talk about the dirty water. Because if you don't have a tax base, you don't have money for anything including efforts to combat infant mortality.