NPR Dishonesty About Massive Poisoning Of Charleston, W. Virginia Water Supply Continues

Another one of their young dweeb correspondents fed their victim-listeners more happy talk about the poisoning of the water supply for over 300,000 inhabitants of Charleston, West Virginia on their morning "news" program, Morning Edition, January 16. Once again the dozens of hospitalized victims went unreported. This time a particularly dishonest line ended the piece- that the EPA "has no information that [the chemical] is dangerous." See the slippery fast one they pulled? That leaves the impression it's NOT hazardous. In fact, there is "no information" that it is dangerous (if you ignore the burns people suffered) OR SAFE, because there are NO FORMAL STUDIES that TESTED the chemical. As with the majority of the hundreds of thousands of chemicals U.S. businessmen are allowed to use willy-nilly, there is no requirement that the chemicals be proven safe. ONLY when scientists manage to get funding to study a particular chemical (assuming some scientist somewhere happens to take an interest in a particular chemical) AND there are years of pressure which FINALLY forces government regulators to pay attention, is it even possible for a chemical to be controlled.

A non-deliberately-misleading statement would have been "there are no scientific studies on this untested chemical as to its possible long-term health effects on people."

Maybe someone should tell the EPA that a few dozen people had to be hospitalized. Do you think that constitutes "information"? NPR could have told them, for that matter. What despicable propagandists.

And if you wanted to know how many thousands of gallons were poured into the water supply, don't listen to NPR for that information. Nor would you have learned that the guilty corporation, the ideologically-named "Freedom Industries," moved the rest of the chemical to a nearby plant that has a "containment wall" with HOLES in it, same as at the original site.
That's what FREEDOM is all about! FREEDOM to do whatever you damn want to make a buck, everybody else be damned!