One major difficulty lies in collecting reliable environmental data. Get this wrong and the study will fail. |
We are asking people to donate an hour of their time plus samples to establish the causes of diseases. It's a gift, and they get no information back, good or bad. |
We really need to shift the balance away from the risks of doing something and take account to a much greater extent of the risks of not doing that research, which is killing thousands if not tens of thousands of people every year. |