The Kochs And Cancer in a Small Town

[EV_Ares]

One of the early storylines about Koch Industries involved its efforts to attack scientific evidence that formaldehyde causes cancer. It was first exposed by Kevin Grandia at DeSmogBlog last fall, and Jane Mayer’s seminal New Yorker story explored it as well. In short, while a member of George W. Bush’s National Cancer Advisory Board, David Koch was helping the Formaldehyde Council, a DC lobbying group, to question scientific research that the chemical could be lethal. At the same time, Koch co-owned Georgia Pacific, which uses formaldehyde extensively in its manufacturing operations.

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[Electric Monk]

1. The Koch brothers don't just cause cancer, their family is a cancer.

k&r

[lunatica]

2. No surprise there. Greed trumps everything - Decency, science, logic, empathy,

reason and life itself. Maybe they think their wealth will keep them living forever.

They are truly twisted souls, if they even have a soul.

[moondust]

3. WTF?

The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

[Quantess]

4. Ooh, that looks somewhat questionable.

Interesting.