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This is a short note on the subject of how little we understand or are willing to admit about long-term effects (whether eventually very obvious effects or sometimes long-hidden side-effects) — and of how, even if a risk is known, it may be suppressed. The front page of today's NY Times (Sunday 1 Dec 85) has two articles on Bhopal, one year after. Stuart Diamond's article begins, "Medical studies conducted in the year since the chemical leak ... indicate that the chemical responsible for the accident causes serious long-term health problems that were unknown before the disaster." Furthermore, the Bhopal problems appear to have been due not just to the pesticide ingredient methyl isocynate, but to an unforeseen chemical reaction that transformed so
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