[ROCKLOBSTER]

The whole place reeked — like someone had spilled a giant bottle of nail polish remover.

You don't suppose it's actually nail polish remover? (acetone)

[almcbean]

Hysteria masquerading as journalism.

[CalvaryJohn]

Talk about a misleading headline. No bias here. Fortunately, for those curious enough to read the article, there is no evidence.

[Kenny Bunk]

NPR is in full campaign mode. Fuller than normal.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Fracking ping.

[Smokin' Joe]

Nail polish remover? That's acetone, and not used in drilling fluids (WAY too much of an explosion/flash fire hazard, and the crews would be sick, too).

Note, too, the article confuses drilling (cutting the wellbore) with fracking (a different process in which the already drilled wellbore is fractured at depth by using fluid and a proppant--usually sand--to make fractures and shove the proppant in to hold them open).

I hope they find the problem, but I'd look in the clinic basement and storage areas of the clinic for leaking chemicals rather than waste my time blaming a drilling rig.

Maybe someone has a drug lab nearby and is looking to blame the oil and gas inductry.

[Obadiah]

Now, no one knows whether the gas drilling has anything to do with the problems at the clinic. It could easily turn out to be something completely unrelated. There's a smelting plant down the road and old coal mines everywhere.

So why is fracking assumed in NPRs scary headline?

[Straight Vermonter]

I remember when microwave ovens were new and people were suing because they had gotten cancer or impotence or something else from them. I suspect any new technology is subject to this hysteria.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Hey, I know, let’s blame fracking with no evidence at all. Nonsense Public Radio.

[mo]

THe Dems Are trying to get their buddies, the trial lawyers a good gig here

[SampleMan]

Have they checked their cupboards for spilled acetone??

[Madame Dufarge]

A few more stories by NPR, and they'll all be developing stigmata.

I once had a boss who was a raging hypochondriac. When his obnoxiousness would become too much to bear, another employee and I would remark on how he was "looking pale," and asking him if he felt OK.

It'd usually take about an hour for him to announce he was going home because he "felt lousy."

[tomkat]

Go Big Red !

[Texas resident]

Doctors and patients seek answers.

Lawyers are waiting in the starting blocks.

[Rebelbase]

"Richard Rinehart, who runs the rural clinic, can't help but wonder whether the natural gas drilling going on all around the area may have something to do with what's been happening. "

Sometimes, whenever I see a rainbow in the sky I can't help but wonder if there's a pot of gold at the end of it.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Richard Rinehart, who runs the rural clinic, can’t help but wonder whether the natural gas drilling going on all around the area may have something to do with what’s been happening.

I can’t help wondering if it isn’t aliens
I can’t help wondering if it isn’t Obama.
I can’t help wondering if it isn’t a bunch of tree huggers
I can’t help wondering if it isn’t just plain old hysteria.
Add any you wish.
Until an investigation is completed it was IRRESPONSIBLE for a news agency to report one man wild guess........

[Labyrinthos]

People living near gas well drilling around the country are reporting similar problems, plus headaches, rashes, wheezing, aches and pains and other symptoms.

No names, places, dates, nothing. Yet, the NPRbots will accept this as the gospel truth.

[thackney]

from the drilling, which is commonly called "fracking."

Only by the ignorante. Drilling is not fracking. Hydraulic fracturing only begins after the drilling is done.

Fracking is only slang for Hydraulic Fracturing.

[thackney]

from the drilling, which is commonly called "fracking."

Only by the ignorant. Drilling is not fracking. Hydraulic fracturing only begins after the drilling is done.

Fracking is only slang for Hydraulic Fracturing.

[seton89]

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