Going waaaay back to one of our Top 40 All-time Flamewars here -
remember the debate about nuclear power plant safety?

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Some cancer clusters could be more fiction than fact
By JIM BARLOW
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
Cancer clusters. Two words that can cause fear in a neighborhood.

We all remember that plucky real-life Erin Brockovich in the movie of
the same name. And how she forced a big power company to pay damages
for leaking chemicals into the water system, which caused a cancer
cluster.

The only problem was, there was never any scientific evidence of any
such thing. The power company just decided it was cheaper -- in legal
and public relations terms -- to pay the money to make the whole thing
go away.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/barlow/1427951

Adam C. Lipscomb
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