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What do you hate about ProPublica? I thought they did a great job with the available data for their series on chemical releases causing cancer in certain indust
by reaperman 3y ago
What do you hate about ProPublica? I thought they did a great job with the available data for their series on chemical releases causing cancer in certain industrial areas[0]. The data available to them is not enough: it's mostly voluntary written release reports combined with weather models to predict gas diffusion patterns, rather than real physical measurements in neighborhoods -- we don't have any gas monitoring so they did as much as anyone could instead.
0: https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/ https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/