CDC covered up Washington DC municipal water contamination

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Why would the CDC cover up the lead problem in the DC water supply?VT Professor Uncovered Truth About Lead in DC Water:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/22/AR2010052203447.htmlMarc mounted a six-year campaign that succeeded last week in forcing the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to admit that it had misled the public about the risk of lead in the District's drinking water... The CDC now concedes that its scientific credibility has suffered a blow. It blames the problem largely on poor writing in the report. "Looking backward six years, it's clear that this report could have been written a little better," said Tom Sinks, deputy director of the CDC's national center for environmental health.CDC Hammered in Congress over DC Lead Report:http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=101567 & catid=158n 2004, tests found lead in some homes was approaching levels that would qualify it as hazardous waste. The CDC authored a report saying basically that there was nothing to worry about... At a House hearing Thursday morning, investigators reported the finding was "scientifically indefensible," in part because all the people the CDC looked at were drinking BOTTLED water.