The People’s Professor | North Carolina Health News
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Looking at cancer cases in the area before and after the accident [Three Miles Island], Steve Wing found that the accident had, in fact, increased cancer rates for nearby residents.
“If you say that there was no high radiation, then you are left with higher cancer rates downwind of the plume that are otherwise unexplainable,” he said in a UNC statement.
“In public health, the research questions we choose and the studies that we conduct respond to the needs of government or industry – basically, the organizations that have money to spend on research,” he said. “I became interested in the idea that there are problems that wouldn’t be identified by the authorities, that we could learn about if we just listen to the people who are exposed.”
In North Carolina, that meant looking at one of the state’s biggest industries: hog farming.
