SMOKING GUN: Michigan scientist told colleague to ‘bump out’ high lead test results to avoid having to tell the public

Wednesday, May 4, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

In recent days so-called “smoking gun” evidence has surfaced in the Flint, Michigan, lead contamination scandal. The Guardian is reporting that a state environmental official suggested that a water collection technician who was gathering samples for a suburban Detroit private water system ‘bump out’ a test result that contained very high levels of lead by testing more homes.

By doing so that could eliminate the need to send out a “lead public notice,” according to the 2008 email, which would then have alerted residents that their water contained dangerously high levels of the neurotoxic heavy metal.

“Oh my gosh, I’ve never heard [it] more black and white,” Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech professor and lead expert who helped uncover the Flint water crisis.

“In the Flint emails, if you recall, it was a little bit implied… this is like telling the strategy, which is: ‘You failed, but if you go out and get a whole bunch more samples that are low, then you can game it lower,'” he continued. “It just shows that this culture of corruption and unethical, uncaring behavior predated Flint by at least six years.”

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