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- When community members’ concerns about environmental issues are not taken seriously, what options could they have to draw attention and resources to address the issue?
- What role did local residents play here in identifying the Woburn cancer cluster? Why is this significant?
- What do you think Woburn community members were able to achieve through this research? What challenges do you think they may have encountered in trying to galvanize political and scientific recognition of these results?
- Why do you think the results were rejected by public health experts, despite the scientific training and support that advocates received?
- In the face of these challenges, what can citizen scientists do?
Snapshot: The Popular Epidemiologists of Woburn, Massachusetts (Reading Guide)