Letter: Inventing science as they go along

Dear Editor:

It is interesting to note that the Environmental Protection Agency has been telling Libby for 10 years now that “we don’t know what ‘acceptable exposure levels’ are.” Yet today, we have acceptable levels at the schools?

Furthermore, one must be terribly interested in which other, as in where, when, why and how, “Superfund sites in the United States” are being referred to by Mr. Berry (David Berry, EPA toxicologist)? They aren’t of any importance in relation to Libby, Mont. And there are no “activity-based sampling” data points anywhere for the amphibole mix of Libby.

Isn’t it infuriating to the people of Libby that time after time, person after person, supplied by EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, come up with stuff that no real scientists in the remainder of the world have ever heard of?

The reason you might ask? Because they are inventing it as they go, specially designed for the consumption of the Libby populace.

Terry Trent

Auburn, Calif.