Sep 072010
As a followup:
1) After the ATK test and until the day before yesterday, whenever I’d go out into the yard I’d get a headache. When I went back indoors, it’d fade.
2) Day before yesterday, a big windstorm blew up, and I had a headache pretty much all day while indoors.
3) Yesterday I futzed around in the yard some, and noticed that the rocketdirt had largely blown off of organic surfaces… wood deck, plant leaves, etc. Minimal headache.
4) Today, no headaches.
Correlation is not causation. This is a concept that confuses and infuriates a great many people. Still, correlation is potentially interesting data.
3 Responses to “Headaches part 2”
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Collect samples of the stuff that fell. In a clean glass bottle. Next time you see your doctor, mention the headaches and the events in your environment. (I used to be married to a chemist doing medical research.)
If you still have that bag of fallout, I’d jar up the whole thing. If ATK tested a new motor and immediately thereafter people started showing effects, then as much as that is still only correlation it is enough to warrant more curiosity.
That said I have no idea how you’d prove anything useful or what that lawsuit would cost. I have a feeling that ATK has a pretty good legal team, like it or not.
Jim
ATK would most likely just settle if people come to them with this, costs a hell of a lot less than a civil action.