Tuesday, April 8, 2008

NASA Workers Getting Cancer


Back in 1956, The Conquerer, a movie starring John Wayne as Genghis Kahn (!) was released. It was a commercial failure. But the strangest thing about the film is that over the years, an inordinate number of its cast and crew came down with various forms of cancer. There is much speculation that the film's location--downwind from the Nevada Nuclear test site--was the cause.

Now, at NASA, we have this story. An inordinate number of workers there are coming down with various cancers. They don't know why, and neither do I, but it is a strange story. So here it is.

[Excerpt]

40 NASA Workers On Same Floor Diagnosed With Cancer

There are 40 cases of cancer among people who work in the same building at NASA Glenn Research Center.

Dozens of the employees fear that their cancer was triggered by years of working in the developmental engineering building, NewsChannel5 reported.

The union that represents hundreds of scientists and other workers said nearly half of the 100 employees on the third floor of the building have been diagnosed with various forms of cancer in the past three to four years. . .

Read more at: News Net 5

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