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“I would run down like a battery during several extreme night shifts atop the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”

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“Magee’s Disease is also known as High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and is a form of High Altitude Disease (HAD).”

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“Magee’s disease is a high altitude commuting disease.”

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“When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore protective breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.”

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“I had a mysterious prolonged UTI of unknown cause in 2007 that all medical UTI testing proved negative. A year later in 2008 my doctor was stating ‘He has a plethora of multi-system complaints with no specificity.’ I had been working at an astronomical facility that used a large amount of mercury and had been handling rubber filled mercury systems with no personal protective equipment, such as gloves and respirators. The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) where I worked provided no industry recognized training in the safe handling of mercury.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“In 2019 it had emerged that I was having chronic fatigue reactions to over the counter medications and to prescription medications. I have a history of five years of regular company drug use atop the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea. This is called ‘Drug Intolerance’.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.”

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Book:Don't Be Afraid, Gringo

Source: Don't Be Afraid, Gringo

“Company drug use was common in very high altitude workers.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“While I was aware of three workers that had disclosed their gender issues during their time in high altitude astronomy, I was not aware of how many more were staying silent about it.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“High altitude astronomy was the only field that I worked in where workers had changed gender during their time there. Two males became females and one female that had been previously attracted to males later became attracted to females. I had not heard of this in other fields that I had worked in.”

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“We would see the effects of cosmic rays in images from the telescope electronic camera’s.”

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Author:Steven Magee