Astronomers know the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are biologically toxic to their workers health, but do not inform the new hires of it, other than they may get altitude sickness and direct them to use the company supplied drugs to offset that sickness. They know that workers are inappropriately acclimatizing on a daily basis, which further aggravates the altitude sickness symptoms.

How did the health and safety cover-up work out for you in the end?

In 1967 astronomy declared war on their very high altitude workers health.

My biggest fear while attempting to recover my health was that it would shut off the discoveries that poor health was yielding.

Astronomy is a profession that I tell people to avoid on the grounds of health and safety.

I can assure you that there is a very large group of people that are completely okay with damaging your health as long as they can obtain their precious data by doing so.

Damage my health and we will have a problem.

Novel research leads to redefining the subject.

I researched radiation because I knew that my life depended on understanding it.