I thought we did away with this sort of thing?

[wolf]

Oh, please ...

For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation.

I think they embellished a bit much.

And unless documentation of the study design is presented, I'll take it all with an extra large grain of salt.

It would be reasonable to recruit children/families for the study as described to test the children for possible environmental exposure ... an adjunct to testing for lead levels and so on ... they don't expose children to the contaminent, but test to see if they already have been. It's reasonable to hypothesize that poor children might have been more likely to have been exposed than children of wealthier families ... most McMansions don't get regularly bombed for roaches, after all.

If I'm guessing right about the study, and misinformation killed it, that's a damn shame.

If the story is accurate, villigers with pitchforks and torches should storm the gates of the sponsoring agencies.

[Elspode]

More likely villagers with obsolete video games and VHS camcorders...

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by wolf

It's reasonable to hypothesize that poor children might have been more likely to have been exposed than children of wealthier families ... most McMansions don't get regularly bombed for roaches, after all.

It's more than that. Poor communities don't have much of a voice when it comes to NIMBY. In fact, many lower income communities sprang up around industrial parks to provide the work force. That's not to say that everyone isn't affected by pollution, since we had a superfund site a mile from our last house. It's just that there is a relationship between income and pollution risk.