Tag: cancer

The Republican Pro-Prostate Cancer Caucus

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 3, 2022

If you were wondering who the 11 senators who voted against the PACT Act, here they are. GOP senators who voted against burn pits bill, which passed 86-11:CrapoLankford LeeLummis PaulRisch RomneyShelbyTillis ToomeyTuberville — Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 3, 2022 Kind of a weird grouping within the caucus, as these 11 don’t usually fit together that […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 208

By Erik Loomis

On February 23, 2018

This is the grave of Susan Komen. There isn’t that much to say about Komen herself. She was born in 1943 and died of breast cancer in 1980 at the age of 36, three years after her diagnosis. That

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Water, Chemicals, Bodies, Cancer

By Erik Loomis

On November 5, 2015

Beth Alvarado has a lovely and sad essay at Guernica about the cancers that killed her husband and much of his family who lived in a neighborhood on the south side of Tucson heavily polluted by a plum

Cancer Clusters

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 12, 2014

Paul Voosen has an interesting article at National Geographic that wonders why there has not been more known cancer clusters develop given the nation’s long history of toxicity. There’s no shortage of the skeptic in Voosen and so the article in places reads like someone who really doesn’t believe toxicity may be that great of […]