Magee’s Disease was discovered by Chartered Electrical Engineer Steven Magee as he used his biomedical training to work through an array of strange health conditions that showed up during and after his time in very high altitude astronomy atop the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

In my forties, I had two options: 1. Do the biological research into High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and live longer. 2. Do nothing and die prematurely from disease.

Reflecting on my time at the 2006 to 2008 observatory, I started to lose my voice in management meetings after extensively handling the rubber mercury mirror support system and the large glass jars of on-site stored mercury with my bare hands and no respiratory protection.

The USA has achieved many great things that make me proud to be American, but unfortunately some of these things have come at the expense of worker occupational disease.

I am proud of the Mauna Kea protectors in Hawaii.

My message to my high altitude frenemies is this: Your luck has ran out.

You would think that university professors would be wise not to blatantly shaft their geniuses.

When I think of astronomy, I think of dangerous incompetents.

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea was an opportunity to push forward the science of High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD).