The Flint water crisis shows the danger of a scientific dark age | By Siddhartha Roy and Marc Edwards for CNNOpinion
Siddhartha Roy and Marc Edwards were leaders of the Virginia Tech Flint Water Study research team that helped expose the depths of the Flint water crisis. Three months after a draft version of their article on Citizen Science Ethics was published in Roy's doctoral dissertation, Edwards was subject to anonymously authored letters and webpages asserting he was unethical, allegations that he contests.
After comedian Michelle Wolf ended her monologue at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner with the resounding mic drop:"Flint still doesn't have clean water," a parade of celebrities, including Alyssa Milano, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore and Omarosa Manigault, shared similar proclamations. Yet in our work alongside relief agencies over the last three years, we can attest that Flint's water system has been one of the most talked about, monitored and scrutinized in the world. In fact, after switching back to the relatively pure Lake Huron source water and committing over $100 million of engineering interventions, Flint water has met all federal water safety standards for regulated contaminants -- including those for lead -- since January 2017.
The immigrant doctor who helped rescue Flint 12:41Scientific assessments that the water quality was improving were countered with some falsified data and even harassment by those claiming victimhood . If post-federal emergency Flint illustrates what a scientific dark age might look like in America, it is not a pretty sight.
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