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Public access to the mortality file is currently restricted by a gag order, but the facts cited in the Santa Clara complaint are corroborated by statistics in a 1996 article in the scientific journal Epidemiology, "Brain Tumors Among Electronics Industry Workers." The file is a substantially complete (99 percent) database of all U.S. IBM workers of five or more years who died between 1975 and 1989; the records were constructed from death certificates obtained by IBM "for administrative purposes"; and the cause of death in 149 of the total 10,331 cases was primary brain cancer. (The article never specifically identifies the subject company, but a footnote identifies IBM as the funder of the research, and the mortality statistics are identical to those included in the complaint.)
That's quite a lot of brain cancer, about 2.5 times that of the general population, without factoring in biases for gender and age. More significantly, what this study found was an upward slope in brain cancer deaths among male electronics workers as duration of employment lengthened.
Santa Clara County is riddled with 23 toxic Superfund sites, more than any county in the country.
BTW, Steve Jobs lived not far away, in one of the known toxic plumes that spreads through the ground here with the water.
And he died of pancreatic cancer, maybe coincidentally, maybe not.
No wonder people commute to Manteca to get away from there!
Yeah and people pay millions for a crapshack on toxic land.
BTW, Steve Jobs lived not far away, in one of the known toxic plumes that spreads through the ground here with the water.
And he died of pancreatic cancer, maybe coincidentally, maybe not.
From its origins as a manufacturer of silicon chips and semiconductors, Santa Clara County is riddled with 23 toxic Superfund sites, more than any county in the country.
Patrick saysBTW, Steve Jobs lived not far away, in one of the known toxic plumes that spreads through the ground here with the water.
And he died of pancreatic cancer, maybe coincidentally, maybe not.
Didn't he live in Woodside?
Manteca = Crack cocaine in español
errc saysManteca = Crack cocaine in español
Actually, it's a word for fats or lards. Maybe it has a colloquial slang meaning for crack cocaine.
Along its Prius-choked roads...
I actually know exactly where this photo was taken. It's the soccer field near the Palo Alto Caltrain station. They did not seem to mention that not only is the land poisoned, they made it into a water reservoir under the field. Super-bad idea for a superfund site.