[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Knowing this, re-read the article. What you have is one person that had thyroid cancer writing a letter, and groups of people now using hindsight (as opposed to careful study and statistics) to try and group a large number of disparate illnesses together. The story quickly glosses over the lack of substatiation from scientific sources (see the bold part of the quote), but that's because it is more interested in "scare" than "fact."

This is Love Canal or DDT redux. But expect our tax dollars to get drained to pay people whose cancers have nothing to do with the fallout, simply because big government wants to show it cares (and cover its own a** from the scientific illiterates out there who easily get stirred up about these enviro-scares).

[RadioAstronomer]

This is no different than the power line cancer scare of a few years ago.