Deja Vu in the Great Lakes

The CDC made public a draft of its Great Lakes report <a title="last week" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/us/13lakes.html?ref=us" id="d4bo">last week</a> after excerpts of the suppressed study were <a title="leaked" href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/part-one-looking-the" id="zssf">leaked</a> to the media. <br><br>It’s deja vu all over again. <br><br>Ten years ago, <a title="the same thing" href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=79fc6bff-2fb2-4603-a510-f539db342a51" id="lmn5">the same thing</a> happened when the Canadian health agency, Health Canada, did a series of reports on the health effects of pollution in the Great Lakes. The reports found 17 areas of concern where pollution was causing higher rates of disease. Health Canada kept the reports under wraps and seemingly had no intention to release them to the public. Then in 2000, two years after the studies were done, one report was leaked to a reporter in Ontario. Health Canada had no choice but to release the others as well.