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COMMENTS: Could be a Coincidence
CBS departed from its normal newscast format to devote a full seven minutes to an Exclusive investigation by Byron Pitts into the $9bn specialty chemical firm Rohm & Haas. The average incidence of brain cancer in the population at large is seven cases out of 100,000, Pitts told us. A village in northern Illinois where Rohm & Haas dumped chemicals into groundwater for 20 years until 1979 has a brain cancer rate of 14 in 1,000. A hallway in a research building in Philadelphia has a brain cancer rate of five out of twelve scientists. "It is important to understand that that could be a coincidence," Dr Philip Lewis told Pitts. Lewis is Rohm & Haas' chief health officer.
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