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The murky tale of Flint's deceptive water data
Author(s) -
LangkjærBain Robert
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01016.x
Subject(s) - blame , law , test (biology) , history , political science , psychology , criminology , psychiatry , geology , paleontology
When children in Flint, Michigan showed signs of lead poisoning, residents rightly suspected their tap water was to blame. Authorities denied the fact for months, but the official water test data was misleading – so citizens fought back with statistics of their own. By Robert Langkjær‐Bain