Angela Zhang
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440 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 9 Sep
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One paper even looked at the chemical level in chicken eggs near an incinerator.
So that's how deep we're getting here.
And sometimes these studies were even funded by the environmental justice organizations or by parties that are linked to incinerators.
These are like dueling science swords.
It makes it hard to figure out who's right.
Right.
This cacophony of scientific information representing different points of view.
Yeah.
So I searched all over for someone who might be able to speak to this as more of a third party.
I found Peter Tate.
He's a doctor in Australia.
He did some systematic reviews of the literature, and he did find some papers correlating incinerators with health conditions like cancers, miscarriages, or birth defects.
Okay.
And some studies show that incinerator workers had more coughing and skin irritation than workers from other industries.
So maybe that suggests some occupational exposure.
Peter says the best you can say is that incinerators have some potential for harm, but that there may be other reasons for the health problems in a community.
Many of the largest incinerators are located near low-income communities or communities of color.
And these are communities that are already more likely to experience air pollution from highways or environmental risks from contaminated sites.
And for the studies that don't show any health effects, Peter says that might be because some things like cancer and birth defects take a long time to show up.
So it might take decades to manifest whether a newer, more advanced incinerator, whether that's associated with less harm.
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