While Flint Was Being Poisoned, State Workers "Quietly" Provided Water Coolers

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19. Dismissed & ridiculed, Va Tech researchers fought to prove Flint's water was unsafe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112796248

From DUer mahatmakanejeeves' post:

After a falsified city government report, included below, claimed that there was no contamination, a volunteer Virginia Tech research team proved that alarming levels of the neurotoxin lead were present in Flint’s drinking water. ... The residents and researchers fought an uphill battle convincing the Flint government that a crisis was at hand.
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) also fought the findings, telling the media that the Virginia Tech research team “(pulls) that rabbit out of that hat everywhere they go,” implying that the researchers results were no more than an illusion.
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The research team at Virginia Tech consists of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, research scientists and principal investigators. The team has received extensive national attention throughout the past few months. The study has been featured on CNN, The Daily Show, NBC News, The Washington Post, CBS News and much more.

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The heroic professor who helped uncover the Flint lead water crisis​ has been asked to fix it
...He is again largely funding this effort out of his own pocket. He received a small $33,000 emergency grant from the National Science Foundation, but he has estimated that he’s spent another almost $150,000.
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“I feel like I’m doing the job I was born to do,” he said. “I get up every day with such a sense of purpose I wish everyone could experience something like that once in their life.”