Comment by rappatic

Comment by rappatic 8 days ago

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> I am pretty cynical that people know the cause, but don't want to deal with it.

I looked up "long island breast cancer" and saw a long list of risk factors. Out of curiosity, did you have a specific one in mind?

ChrisMarshallNY 8 days ago

Long Island is one of the oldest industrial areas in the nation.

Many those planes and tanks that you saw in the WWII movies were built here.

The companies around here dumped their waste straight into the aquifer. For decades.

Where our drinking water comes from.

But it’s also some of the most valuable real estate in the nation.

droidist2 8 days ago

Long Island is a very dense with overhead power lines, but then again look at Tokyo.