I recall reading a paper YEARS ago about a research facility which produced cancers in workers...but the site was covered up by the government. I can't recall details.
However, radiation is such a problem in NJ that the state has a website for it:
https://www.state.nj.us/dep/rpp/rms/rad_cleanups.htm
"Staff of the Bureau of Environmental Radiation provide technical support to the Site Remediation Program (http://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/) on the investigation and remediation of radiologically contaminated sites in New Jersey. The Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) program (http://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/srra/) applies to these sites with one notable exception - the LSRP cannot approve and implement any work regarding the radionuclide contamination without first obtaining Department approval. Sites contaminated with radioactive materials in New Jersey include former manufacturing facilities, sites that were part of the Manhattan Project (the first nuclear weapons program), other weapons program (such as the BOMARC Missile site pictured) and various mineral/mining operations. Regulations, guidance, and a spreadsheet available for download assist LSRPs, consultants and responsible parties in complying with cleanup requirements."
It's certain that this school likely resides on a former research or dump site, similar to San Francisco's Treasure Island.
https://beyondchron.org/san-franciscos-radioactive-island/
The OP story at the NY Post source has many more details about the cancer cases
A simple Geiger counter would solve this concern.
Indeed strange....but why the same type of tumor? Is it possible that many other tumours developed in other unaccounted for associates? Lots of sleuthing needs to be done
Wow. The Manhattan Project.
I believe this article story already solves the “mystery”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t get a gift from the site that is radioactive and they forgot its source and meaning. They may be touching it every day Other discoveries have occurred in the 80s and 90s
Yes, it’s everywhere, even in St. Louis:
I know someone who is terrified of a cancer diagnosis - kids used to play in Coldwater Creek all the time, oblivious to the danger until they starting getting cancer later on in life. It became impossible to ignore the shared experiences, or for the data to be hidden.
Miscalibrated NIKE site radars?
Even before the Manhattan project:
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The painting was done by women at three different factories, and the term now applies to the women working at the facilities: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and a third facility in Waterbury, Connecticut, also in the 1920s.
After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to “point” their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip;[1] some also painted their fingernails, face and teeth with the glowing substance. The women were instructed to point their brushes in this way because using rags or a water rinse caused them to use more time and material, as the paint was made from powdered radium, gum arabic and water.
Five of the women in New Jersey challenged their employer in a case over the right of individual workers who contract occupational diseases to sue their employers under New Jersey’s occupational injuries law, which at the time had a two-year statute of limitations, but settled out of court in 1928. Five women in Illinois who were employees of the Radium Dial Company (which was unaffiliated with the United States Radium Corporation) sued their employer under Illinois law, winning damages in 1938.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
I have a watch bought from Sears around ‘56 that made the physics teacher’s Geiger counter really buzz. Haven’t worn it much since then.
I work at a military base in central Indiana. There is a 20 year old building there that was built on top of what used to be a site for dumping wastes of all kinds. Over the years several people have come down with cancers of different types, etc, no one investigates it. Kind of the same thing happening with these folks I’m sure.
The above story says 65 people.
Let’s see some documentation for actual people with tumors before running off half-cocked.
Given the location (northeast US), radon could also be a consideration.
Whoa boy, my wife taught at a Middle School in Colonia. Three teachers had cancer.
It seems like as little as ten bucks could answer most of the questions raised in the article: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=geiger+counter&_sacat=0&_sop=15
Is 100 over 47(or 40) years a high number? The article is missing a lot of info that seems critical to me, such as total number of students that have attended the school since 1975. That would provide some context as to the severity/uniqueness surrounding this High School. Remember, the media relies on keeping the "rabble" fearful so they don't focus on the destruction politicians are doing to the state/country.
If this paper wanted to know the truth, all they have to do is invest in a geiger counter and walk around the school
If this paper wanted to know the truth, all they have to do is invest in a geiger counter and walk around the school
Sometimes numbers are just weird, they do not always act like we think they should. I was in a small office, 10 people back in the 1980s 2 guys 8 women, 6 of the women had cancer all discovered over a 3 year period.
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