Ruling expected in lawsuit over Dow dioxin contamination

Having once made a dertermination regarding class action status , Judge Borello ( now retired) is unlikely to change his interpretation of circumstances and facts unless he relies on some of the research findings published after his first ruling………the most significant UMDES tends to argue against harm to adult  residents living on the soil  although MDCH’s poster presentation as well as a paper tangential to and by the UMDES team showed completed exposure pathways possible for persons who raise free-range chickens and vegetables, eati ng the eggs and crops grown on contaminated soil…The 2009  ZIP code and Breast ( and Lung ) cancer studies , themselves, suggest “AN INSIGNIFICANT” statistical association between ZIP codes and disease incidence, calling for “further study” so that any inferences taken from those studies relating breast cancer and dioxin exposures are faulty ones,,,moreover, the disease rates were measured BEFORE the soil was analyzed , an order of time normally reversed i n studies where disease outcomes are reflected in measured PRIOR exposures …It is peculiar that persons so critical of perceived deficiencies in the UMDES would cling to such weak evidence as found in the referent Oyana and Dai studies……

As to Class Action status, being in a member of such a class operates unfavorably for every member of that class should the courts rule in favor of DOW and against the ‘class”…….It will be very interesting to see how this all turns out as one might consider the words written by Greg Iles in “Blood Memory”

     “Facts, are not truth.  Facts are like skeletons dug up long after death; truth is alive; truth is vibrant…to KNOW the truth requires great human understanding: the most difficult of human arts …understanding  requires knowing all things at once, both backward and forward………”