Professors are typically in their own little worlds, doing their own thing and thinking that the laws do not apply to them.

Like Karen Wetterhahn, I was mercury poisoned in the employment of Dartmouth College. Unlike Karen Wetterhahn, I survived the extremely sickening mercury poisoning.

When I reflect on my time working for the W. M. Keck Observatory, Columbia University and Dartmouth College, my memories are not of brilliant minds advancing science, but rather of shady people damaging their workers health in order to obtain tainted astronomical data.

During almost a decade in high altitude astronomy, I developed a strong dislike for the upper management teams through experience.

When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I had no idea how dangerous the management teams were.

There is a social responsibility for those in the know to protect those that do not know.

Business as usual is no longer acceptable.

Having extensively researched the toxicity of high altitude astronomy, I consider myself lucky that the astronomy management teams did not murder me.

If you have arranged a free OSHA assistance visit to your facility and the management team insists on its cancellation, you are likely working in a known biologically toxic environment.