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A Flint pediatrician and former hospital CEO blasted the use of industrial scanners not designed for use on human beings to document Flint residents exposure to lead-contaminated drinking water, as a federal judge began a multi-day hearing Monday on whether a proposed $641.25 million partial settlement is a fair one. It s just mind-boggling, Dr. Lawrence Reynolds, the former president and CEO of Mott Children s Health Center in Flint, told U.S. District Judge Judith Levy. This is completely irresponsible and unethical.
Bone scans have emerged as an important way for Flint residents to show they qualify for higher settlement amounts. Another way is a blood lead test, but only if it was performed soon after the lead exposure happened, beginning in April 2014. Another possible way to show damage is cognitive testing. Controversy surrounds the use of portable bone scanners designed for use in the mining and recycling industries but modified for use on huma
The law firm Napoli-Shkolnik has made clear its disdain for medical professionals and Flint residents who have raised legitimate questions of safety, reliability and other related ethical questions.
Flint’s population, poisoned with lead in water seven years ago, is once again being victimized by “voluntarily” subjecting themselves including children and pregnant women to a radiation-emitting bone scan.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 16 May 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Covid seemed to drop out of the news this week; usually, I ll see virus stories on news sites most read or recent news lists; this week I had to go looking for them. Part of the reason was that the East Coast fuel pipeline shutdown dominated the headlines, but the underlying reason is that new cases in the US and globally are falling rapidly, even in India. And the news organizations are reluctant to cover a story that bleeds less this week than it did last week.