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Tuesday, March 01, 2011
National Institutes Of Health Studies Crude Oil Exposure To Humans
We're learning more about a health study on the effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from the National Institutes of Health. NIH is launching the study to follow 55,000 cleanup workers and volunteers over the next ten years. It is called the GuLF Study, which stands for Gulf Long-term Follow Up Study. It is the largest health study of its kind, and will make up one part of the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The goal is to find out if exposure to crude oil and dispersants affect physical and mental health.
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What??? How much money and how many government employees will THIS take?? There are signs at gas stations warning people not to get gasoline on their skin (it can cause cancer)....the "dispersants" we used have been BANNED in other countries because of health effects. Now, we need a 10 year "study"?? How about just reviewing the heath records of the thousands of oil field workers, who regularly get crude oil on their skin? AND those records already exist...or reviewing the health of some Nigerian people who have endured environmental DISASTER with hundreds of oil spills by American oil companies?
I agree with Imclain! NIH is a giant waste of money. They actually do nothing there but administer money that they pay to other people to do the research. And some of the research is for wacco projects like the effects on humans from cheese that's been melted on top of a pizza! Really!
Drive by the NIH someday in Bethesda. All you hear is a giant sucking sound from the money being pumped out of the place.
Craig Theobald
Ironshire
I would love to see how your opinion changes if you ever need to take the cancer medications or take advantage of any of the other medical breakthroughs that are developed in part by the science being performed by NIH. Take two seconds and actually go through the science publications available on NIH's website. It's quite obvious that do more than their fair share to advance science in this country.
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