“Given that workers compensation is denying high altitude worker claims for occupational disease, it is common sense to never work in the biologically toxic field of astronomical observatories atop remote mountain summits.” DiseaseWorkersAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtCompensationOccupational Author:Steven Magee
“To speak out or not to speak out, that is the question.” SpeakAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopeQuestionOut Author:Steven Magee
“In the area of worker health and safety, the USA is like a third world country.” WorldCountryAstronomyUsaOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtThird Author:Steven Magee
“After being denied my earned disability benefits, I concluded that I had nothing to lose by speaking out about the illegal workplace activities I had observed during my career.” BenefitsAstronomyOshaAltitudeIllegalDisabilityMaunaKeaDeniedTmt Author:Steven Magee
“I suspect that if the long term summit workers of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) were studied, they would find elevated levels of mental and physical illness, gender dysphoria, disease and premature death that comes from keeping them in an abnormal state of mal-acclimatization.” IllnessGenderAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtMentalPhysical Author:Steven Magee
“Mauna Kea summit workers are kept in a state of mal-acclimatization, as they are never fully acclimatized to near sea level or to the very high altitude mountain summit.” WorkersAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtSummitStateAcclimatization Author:Steven Magee
“Mal-acclimatization occurs when the human has no long term adaptation to any altitude due to frequent changes in altitude over 4,900 feet. Mal-acclimatization may lead to long term sickness, gender issues, genetic changes, disease and premature death in the human.” GenderAstronomyOshaSicknessAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtGeneticAcclimatization Author:Steven Magee
“Empty plastic water bottles at near seal level would become pressurized by the time we reached the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and empty plastic water bottles at the summit would become crushed by the time we were near sea level.” WaterAstronomyOshaAltitudeBottlesMaunaKeaTmtPlasticSummit Author:Steven Magee
“The longer I worked in high altitude astronomy, the sicker I became.” AstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopeWorkedLongerSicker Author:Steven Magee
“I came to the belief that Mauna Kea was indeed sacred because all the visions that I had on the mountain were of Hawaiians.” MountainSacredAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtVisionsHawaiians Author:Steven Magee