Submitted by Jonathan Bennett, Sep 10, 2007 05:25

According to two brand-new major-media reports, the incidence and seriousness of 9/11-related disease is being exaggerated by doctors who have been making "scientifically questionable" claims.

TODAY (Monday) tune in to "Health Action" on WBAI at 1pm when a panel of renowned public health and communications experts takes a critical look at the news –

• How many people are seriously ill as a result of exposure to 9/11-related contamination?
• How sick are they? (Is chronic, intractable, sinusitis really just a "runny nose?)
• What is the prognosis of those who are sick?
• How many more people are likely to become sick in the future?
• Where is the indignant media coverage of the false statements that the air was safe to breathe, resulting in tens of thousands people being exposed to dangerous contamination?
• Similarly, where is the coverage of false statements that remaining 9/11-related contamination is harmless?
• Who benefits from claims that people who are believed to have 9/11-related disease aren't sick?

The segment, "How Could Anyone Get Sick from Breathing Air That Was Safe (Because We Said it Was)?" will air from 1:00 to 1:55 pm EDT on WBAI 99.5 FM, simultaneously webcast at www.wbai.org . Panelists will include:

• Daily News columnist and Democracy Now host Juan Gonzalez
• Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., Chair of the Mt. Sinai Medical Center Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
• Michael R. Harbut, M.D., CoDirector of the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers, Karmanos Cancer Institute
• Dave Newman, Coordinator of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health's WTC Health and Safety Project
• Kimberly Flynn, CoCoordinator of 9/11 Environmental Action
• Additional guests may be announced before air time

Produced and hosted by Jonathan Bennett.

The program will be available from the wbai.org archives for 90 days. Look for the "Health Action" segment from 1pm on 9/10.

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