Also contra is that Brockovich more-or-less wrecked her own family in the process. She's far from a heroine.
But don't say that. "Everyone knows" different.
whoops!
Never cared for the looks of that gal.
The real story is that the release of a toxic plume may be responsible for the evolution of a dog who can communicate his thought regarding his medical ailments.
Wearing clothes that are 3 sizes too small must affect the circulation to your brain (or something).
Oh, dear. I guess I must have missed seeing that movie.
The cleanup was something that the company should have been doing without prodding, however, the cancer claims and potential clustering of cases were contrived in the minds of the ambulance-chasing weasels.
It doesn’t matter. Being held accountable for their lies is never going to happen. The democratic party lied and minipulated the population for years through the scam of “Global Warming”. It is a lie and they used it purposefully to further their agenda. They are all guilty of fraud, they have no credibility on any issue and can only be trusted to lie at every opportunity.
Not a word about it.
Notice from the article that it was diluted in a solution of deadly dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO)! I think we should go after the real culprit: DHMO. Find out who was responsible for introducing DHMO into the hexavalent chromium 6.
What is this thing that the writer keeps saying, "hexavalent chromium 6"? If it isn't just redundancy, it looks like somebody is confused about the naming of nuclear isotopes.
Of course, maybe it's that way in the movie. Not that I'm gonna trouble myself to find out.
Does this mean that PG&E can get their money back?
Oh, what a surprise. Hollyweird having NO IDEA what it is talking about AGAIN!
Gee, say it ain’t so. Another liberal lie in a movie script.
Erin Brockovich and Rachel Carson, two peas in a pod.
reported in the Wall Street Journal, “no one agent could possibly have caused more than a handful of the symptoms described, and Chromium 6 in the water almost certainly couldn’t have caused any of them.”
found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s own risk information concluded that “no data were located in the available literature that suggested that (Chromium 6) is carcinogenic by the oral route of exposure.” The substance has been shown to cause cancer only through inhalation of large doses over many years. High-dose tests in rodents and dogs failed to demonstrate ill effects.
recent research on Chromium 6 exposure at the Hinkley plant showed that “not only was there no excess of cancer when compared to the general California population, but that the overall PG&E worker death rate was significantly much lower than those of other Californians
In the only other skeptical piece about Erin Brockovich to appear in a major mainstream newspaper, New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata noted this week that “federal agencies whose scientists were not involved in the litigation said evidence was lacking that chromium (VI) in groundwater caused a myriad of health problems.”
Read the original Wall Street Journal article, “Erin Brockovich, Exposed” and longer version of the article, “The Dark Side of Erin Brockovich” (The National Post, March 29, 2000).
http://fumento.com/brockovich/erinwsj.html
http://fumento.com/brockovich/erinpost.html
Feb 4th 2009 9:00AM
Elizabeth Brockovich, 17, daughter of environmental campaigner Erin Brockovich recently spoke out about her addiction to drugs — and blames her mom’s fame for her struggles.
Elizabeth confessed that she started experimenting with marijuana at age 12, and was hooked on cocaine and prescription drugs by age 14, all while her mother was busy campaigning or promoting her hit Hollywood film, Erin Brockovich, starring Julia Roberts.
http://www.parentdish.com/2009/02/04/erin-brockovich-daughter-blames-mom-for-addiction/
“When the movie came out, she was gone all the time either on appearances or interviews or lecturing,” said Elizabeth. “That was my time to go crazy, because she wasn’t there. I would ditch school, I was driving around with kids that were under the influence.
“Brockovich, 48, says she didn’t know Elizabeth was using drugs. It was only when her daughter’s grades started slipping and “she’d no longer look in my eyes,” that Brockovich realized her daughter was using. That, and the money Elizabeth was stealing from her to pay for her habit.
Erin married actor Eric Ellis in 1999.
Erin’s 1999 marriage was her third trip to the alter. She was first married in 1982 to a restaurant manager named Shawn Brown, with whom she had two children, Matthew and Katie. Erin and Shawn divorced in 1987.
After becoming a secretary at a Reno brokerage, it was there that she met her third husband, stockbroker Steven Brockovich. The two married in 1989 and had one child, her youngest daughter, Elizabeth. Erin and Steven divorced in 1990.
Currently, Erin Brockovich-Ellis lives with her husband and children in Agoura Hills, California.
In addition to dyslexia, Erin also claims that she has struggled through anorexia and that she has panic disorder.
Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Chemistry and Society, “is that ingested chromium-6 encounters hydrochloric acid in the stomach’s gastric juices, and is converted to chromium-3, which is innocuous.” Chromium-3 is a trace mineral and is found in such foods as broccoli, cheese, meats, cereal, brewer’s yeast, whole grains, and mushrooms (ETC.org). Chromium-3 is considered essential in man and animals for efficient lipid, glucose, and protein metabolism (GreatDreams.com). Schwarcz also pointed out, “no single toxin causes the wide array of conditions that afflict Hinkley residents.”
The real Erin Brockovich appeared as a waitress in the film.
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Erin Brockovich & husband Eric Ellis in Sydney
March 8, 2007
