More on 9/11 Health Effects

As noted previously in this space, EPA's post-9/11 reassurances that the Manhattan air was safe to breathe turned out to be badly wanting in scientific foundation. It now transpires that in two decades' time, we may know whether EPA's unfounded claims were accidentally accurate. Newsday reports that the NYC health department, with funding from FEMA and help from CDC and ATSDR, has established a health registry, in which it wants everyone to enroll if they spent even "moments" downtown in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks. The hope is to enlist 200,000 registrants and track their medical situations over twenty years.

In some Afghanistani cave, Al Qaeda's lawyers must be preparing the statute-of-limitations brief even now.