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Originally Posted by Dondilion
Medical experts concluded that the environmental degradation after 9/11 had serious consequence to the health of people who lived or worked in the Twin Tower area and especially those who did clean up work.
Conclusion of medical authorities:As of August 2013.
Diagnosed with cancer - 1140 people who worked lived or studied in Lower Manhattan.
Workers at the scene days and months after the attack - 1400 died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual...ber_11_attacks
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I think cancer kills about 1 out of every 4 people anyway, so I question any study suggesting causality between 9/11 and local NYC cancer deaths.
To quote Wikipedia:
A study published in December 2012 in The Journal of the American Medical Association observed the possible association between exposure to the World Trade Center debris and excess cancer risk. Over 55,000 individuals enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry, separated by rescue and/or recovery workers and non-rescue and/or recovery workers, were observed from 2003 or 2004 to December 31, 2008. The findings showed the overall incidence of all cancers among rescue and/or recovery workers was not significantly elevated, compared to non-rescue and/or recovery workers. Despite this, the incidences for prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, and multiple myeloma were significantly elevated among the rescue and/or recovery workers, in the final year of observation.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health...ber_11_attacks
DQ is right.
Our response to 9/11, our invasion of Iraq, was a complete and utter disaster.
What kills me are people complaining about Obama being too soft on Iran after George Bush took out a Sunni buffer by getting rid of Saddam, thus increasing Iran's power in the region.