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Episode 30: Selikoff’s Warning

Episode 30: Selikoff’s Warning

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S1E30 — Selikoff’s WarningThe Asbestos Podcast · Season 1 · Arc 7: The Truth Emerges (Episode 1)Episode 30 — Selikoff’s WarningOctober 19th, 1964. New York Academy of Sciences. Over 400 scientists in the room. Dr. Irving Selikoff presents two studies. In the clinical examination cohort: 1,522 insulation workers, 1,117 examined, 392 with twenty or more years of exposure. Of those 392, 339 — 86 percent — showed X-ray evidence of asbestosis. In the mortality cohort: 307 deaths. Lung cancer at seven times the expected rate. And mesothelioma — a cancer so rare that some pathologists doubted it existed — ten cases. The industry called it “an extraordinary high incidence.” Then they suppressed the press coverage.Episode 30 opens Arc 7: The Truth Emerges. It tells the story of the man who broke the silence. Irving Selikoff was born in Brooklyn in 1915 — the same quotas that kept Jewish students out of American medical schools sent him to Anderson’s College of Medicine in Glasgow, Scotland. He arrived on the S.S. Samaria October 12, 1936. He came back, cured tuberculosis with a drug his JAMA paper called “the most potent drug introduced thus far,” and then spent twenty years studying the men dying in the insulation trades. What he found in October 1964 was undeniable. What the industry did next was predictable. And what Congress had done ten weeks earlier — pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution — meant that the proof arrived just as 3.4 million more Americans were being sent into the most asbestos-saturated military in history.Key TakeawaysThe conference that almost wasn’t covered. The Asbestos Textile Institute mounted immediate opposition to the 1964 NYAS conference. ATI minutes document that member companies’ “protests and threats successfully prevented the distribution of press releases.” The New York Times published one article. The conference “barely registered a blip in the nation’s consciousness.” Not by accident. By design.Two studies, not one. Selikoff, Churg, and Hammond presented two distinct datasets at the October 1964 conference. The clinical study (NYAS Annals Vol. 132, 1965) found 86% of workers with 20+ years of exposure had asbestosis on X-ray. The separate mortality study, updated from their April 1964 JAMA paper, tracked 632 workers and found 307 deaths — with 10 mesotheliomas and lung cancer at more than 7 times the expected rate.The quota that sent him to Scotland. Yale Medical School’s dean — Milton Winternitz, himself Jewish — had instructed his admissions committee: “Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all.” Selikoff couldn’t get into an American medical school. He boarded a Cunard liner in New York and arrived in Glasgow two weeks later. That detour is why he was available in Paterson, New Jersey in the early 1950s, when the UNARCO insulation workers first walked into his clinic.History for hire. In 2003, a British historian named P.W.J. Bartrip published an article attacking Selikoff’s credentials — funded by Turner and Newall, Britain’s largest asbestos manufacturer. Eight prominent researchers from Brown, Manchester, RMIT, and Mount Sinai published a rebuttal calling it “little more than an ad hominem attack.” In 2013, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine stated: “The insulator mortality data stand undiminished by the test of time.”The timing. August 7, 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 88–2 and 414–0. October 19, 1964: Selikoff presents proof at NYAS. March 2, 1965: Operation Rolling Thunder begins. The companies that received scientific certainty in October 1964 continued supplying the military without warnings for the next decade. About 37 percent of all U.S. asbestos ever consumed was consumed after 1965. Peak: 803,000 tons in 1973.OSHA’s long road. OSHA didn’t exist in 1964 — it launched in 1970. First asbestos standard: 12 fibers per cubic centimeter. Then 5. Then 2. Then 0.2. Today: 0.1. A 99 percent reduction over 23 years. A full ban didn’t arrive until the EPA’s 2024 rule — sixty years after Selikoff’s warning.Featured at Danziger & De LlanoRod De Llano, founding partner. Princeton undergrad. UT Law with honors. Spent four years at Jones Day — one of the largest law firms in the world — defending corporations in product liability cases. Then walked away. “He wanted to direct his energy and talents towards helping people in significant need of representation.” Over a billion dollars recovered. He knows exactly how the other side thinks because he used to be the other side. Free consultation at dandell.com.Paul Danziger and Rod De Llano founded Danziger & De Llano in 1995. Thirty years of mesothelioma litigation. Nearly two billion dollars recovered for over a thousand families. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed, the consultation is free.ResourcesFree consultation: dandell.comEpisode notes...
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