Civil Liberties

as fact that DNA is "infallible." When it is merely a substance that is collected like any other. So it is prone to the same types of bad treatment.

And now, "researchers" are hired by Big Industry to tell us that it is not the polluted environment waging a terrifying war on the cells in our body that is the real problem, but rather the fault, they try to tell us, is in our genetic material. Which in a sense is correct, but in another sense is quite misleading.

Although of course, there are examples of people whose DNA is superlative in terms of shaking off pollutants. Consider the case of the woman who like her co-workers, licked the radioactive paint brushes during the summer employment of the clock manufacturers. The teenagers were hired to paint the radon gas-based paint on the dials of clocks and watches. When a researcher went looking for these women some fifteen or twenty years later, this one woman had survived. Even though she was so radioactive that the researcher's geiger counter started buzzing four households away from this woman's home.

But while it is fair to consider our genome's to be the gun, the fact of the matter is that it is the polluting environment that is the bullet that pierces our health and destroys our lives. And there are meany indications that pollutants alter the DNA, both in utero, and after birth. So it is rather weird for researchers to try and chalk up a disease to "defects" in the genetic material. And it is really too much of a chicken vs the egg question.