Your fallacy is you will not accept the results. You want there to a a neatly package answer but in all likelihood that is just not going to happen. This is not some fiction novel that conveniently starts with tragedy and ends with a satisfying conclusion.

1 in 3 people get cancer and 1 in 5 die from it. The exact cause can often be evasive because cancer is not responsive as a light switch, it can take years or decades to be found.

Regarding the additional testing, > That kind of follow-up could have the opposite effect, said Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey’s commissioner of environmental protection, and send “the wrong message” that the suspicions deserved any more resources than what had already been invested.

> One month later, Mayor McCormac echoed this sentiment to me: “It’s frustrating that people who hoped that there was no radiation on the site now are upset that there’s not,” he said. “They asked us to do this, and we did it. We did exactly what they wanted.”

The Township did not hid from this. They did exactly what needed to be done. The issue is folks have a predetermined narrative. The school is toxic and we will not stopping testing until that is proven true.

> When the state health department calculated the number of brain and other nervous system tumors that would be expected among the cohort of students and staff from 1968 to 2021, it concluded it could be up to 120 individuals — just slightly under Mr. Lupiano’s count of about 125 (though he believes his tally is an undercount). At least one epidemiologist I spoke to for this article told me that, just glancing at the numbers, he wasn’t surprised that public officials have determined Colonia was not a true cluster.