I like to give credit to companies when deserved, even those which manufactured asbestos-containing products or mined asbestos. This includes Johns-Manville in the depth of the depression. You may remember my earlier blog discussing statements by Manville, in which I quoted New Jersey residents who refused to sue Johns-Manville for illnesses arising from asbestos exposure;…
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I apologize for the terrible condition of the February 26, 1970 letter from Irving Selikoff at Mount Sinai School of Medicine to William Pierson of the Ford Motor Company Chemistry Department, Scientific Research Staff, but the attached is the best that I have. I can read my copy with some effort, but the scanned document…
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Asbestos exposures can occur even in unexpected locations. A recent journal article titled “Marble Waste Dump Yard in Rajasthan, India Revealed as a Potential Asbestos Hazard” is an excellent example. A copy of the full article is at https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-India.pdf. The article acknowledges that asbestos studies and regulations focusing on mining and buildings are readily available…
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Researching asbestos history is difficult — lots of mistakes (especially about the science), experts and attorneys with private data/document silos, significant paywalls to get articles, inconsistent claims trying to reconcile studies that have been undertaken in the Global South to those using the countries of the Global North, and on and on and on. This…
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While researching some of the asbestos science aspects this past week, I ran across an asbestos use and safety analysis by Russian pathologist and author Sergei V. Jargin who has a biography at https://novapublishers.com/writer/sergei-v-jargin/. Although much of his scholarly discourses involve the overestimation of medical consequences of low-dose exposure to ionizing radiation (think: Chernobyl Nuclear…
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Below is a table listing all of my asbestos-related blogs from December 2020 to the present including the titles, dates, and hot links. Interestingly, my summary blogs are among my most popular. Happy Holidays to all. Thank you. Marty Blog Title Date Blog Location 1 Asbestos, a Magic Mineral Dec 16, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=619 2 A…
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One of the more difficult jobs for Mesothelioma sufferers, attorneys, shipbreakers, and others participating in “Industries Behind the Ship,” is to sort out when and where asbestos components were located. To help you, The Book of the Ship from 1949 is a good starting place. The book doesn’t focus on asbestos but, rather on ship…
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Most of my lawyer friends know this story, but I am not sure about others. So, lets begin with the participants. On September 12, 1966, E. A. Martin, was a Director of Purchases for the Bendix Friction Material Division stationed in Troy, New York. Noel Hendry, at the same time, was employed at “Canadian Johns…
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I was going to skip doing a blog this week, but I found some extra time. All of my History PhD applications are filed and I have been playing around with some of my older books and electronic materials. I decided to start off with one of the big issues about asbestos: the toxicity when…
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With all that is going on in the asbestos world, including how the election of Donald Trump may make environmentalists glad that the United States Supreme Court shot down the Chevron doctrine, I have a number of blogs on which I am working. For today, I am going to re-post my listing of blogs which…
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