[BITList] Asbestosis

[HUGH MCINTYRE]

A  depressing article in today's Herald.  Lawyers for industries reluctant to accept that employees who had been exposed to their asbestos contracted fatal diseases have come up with a new smoke screen.  Pleural plaques is beneficial, they say - the ailment shows the body is healthy and up to the job of resisting full asbestosis (I'm not making this up).  The last dodge they tried was to ask sufferers to prove the shipyards where they'd worked had ever built a ship, and if asbestos had ever been used on ships.  Dropping the barstewards head first into a tank of ordure would be a good way to start.

Hugh.



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