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“When it come to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the workers are far better informed than I was and know the many illness, disease and premature death risks of working at very high altitude that collectively are called High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Any employer that is informing their workers that they may develop ‘Summit Brain’ and directs their employees to use drugs to do their job needs to be shut down.”

Brain Thirty Osha Altitude Tmt Summit Telescope High Meter Observatory

Author:Steven Magee

“It is important that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) workers realize that if they develop High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) that it is highly unlikely that they will get disability or workers compensation payments for occupational disease.”

Disease Astronomy Thirty Osha Altitude Tmt Telescope High Meter Observatory

Author:Steven Magee

“The full effects of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) take decades to show up.”

Disease Astronomy Thirty Osha Altitude Tmt Telescope High Meter Observatory

Author:Steven Magee

“The collapse of the Aricebo Observatory was a good example of what happens to poorly maintained industrial facilities.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“There was a lot of observatory fabricated electronic circuitry used in astronomy that had never been tested to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) standards for electromagnetic interference (EMI).”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Astronomy staff that routinely discharged industrial gas into the indoor environment at high altitudes did not wear oxygen deficiency monitors or protective breathing respirators.”

“The only workplace that prevented a health and safety visit from occurring during my career was professional astronomy. They were adamant that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were not going to be allowed to visit the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA. They were successful in canceling the scheduled OSHA visit and the result was I became much sicker as time progressed while working there. Part of that sickness was suspected mercury poisoning.”

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Book:Magee’s Disease

Source: Magee’s Disease

“I made the mistake of taking a past girlfriend up to Kitt Peak National Observatory to fill the instrument cryostat with liquid nitrogen. It was one of the largest cryostats at the facility and took a long time to fill. The entire time there was a huge plume of cold nitrogen gas coming out of it, visible for several feet. After we were finished, she started complaining of feeling sick to the point that she thought she was going to vomit. It lasted for several hours. A few years later she started showing signs and symptoms of fatigue and depression and was being medically treated for it. I always felt guilty that I exposed her to the nitrogen gas, as I had no idea how toxic it was because I had never been sent on an OSHA approved cryogenic liquid training course.”

Sick Girlfriend Osha Liquid Observatory Peak Nitrogen National Kitt Cryostat

Author:Steven Magee

“By the time I left Kitt Peak National Observatory, I had formed the opinion there was a cover-up culture there.”

Time Culture Opinion Osha Observatory Cover Up Peak National Kitt Formed

Author:Steven Magee

“The sickest high altitude workers that I encountered in professional astronomy were at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Workplace harassment was a feature of USA professional astronomy.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“While it would have been easier to jump off a cliff, developing the diagnosis and treatment of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) was a problem that needed to be solved.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am reverse engineering my disabling sickness into the medical diagnosis of High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD).”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am the genius of High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD).”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Discussions about High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD) are a notable omission from professional astronomy conferences.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“You never fully recover from mercury poisoning.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Developing the treatment for High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) was reminiscent of the movie Lorenzo’s Oil, as the doctors failed me and I had to find the treatments myself.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) cannot be recovered from. It is a lifelong disease that is managed through treatment and it may eventually kill you.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) is like a ticking time bomb that explodes many years later.”

Disease Astronomy Osha Altitude Tmt High Observatory Bomb Ticking Explodes

Author:Steven Magee

“Just as you are about to start construction the 1.3 billion dollar world’s largest telescope, a crazy person from the previous telescope project shows up with hundreds of pages of scientific reasons why the toxic project needs to be shut down by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The entire astronomical observatory team were installing a mercury argon spectral lamp (HgAr) during a training session when one of the workers smashed the mercury filled spectral lamp. We continued the training session with a new mercury spectral lamp from stock. A week later I was at the doctors complaining of a variety of health conditions that were classic mercury poisoning.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Despite being required to work on mercury systems, the management team never sent me on an industry recognized mercury training course and I ended up with nasty mercury poisoning.”

Safety Train Astronomy Poison Osha Mercury Observatory Peak National Kitt

Author:Steven Magee

“I was mercury poisoned at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).”

Space Safety Astronomy Poison Osha Mercury Observatory Peak National Kitt

Author:Steven Magee

“Astronomy management teams not informing me about the range of sickness that High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) causes put my doctors in a land of misdiagnosis.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Since 1996 the W. M. Keck Observatory has been observing what happens to workers that spend their time in and around two massive Faraday cages.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“While altitude sickness was disclosed to the astronomy workers, high altitude observatory disease (HAOD) was not disclosed.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“High altitude astronomy is a catch 22: Stay inside the observatory and get high altitude observatory disease (HAOD) or go outside and get radiation sickness. Either way, the sea level adapted human may develop sickness.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“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.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The thing that most shocked me about astronomy in the Ivy League was how run down and poorly functioning their telescopes were.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am the test pilot of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Harass me and we will have a problem.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Poison my team and I will hunt you down with science.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Mercury poison me and we will have a problem.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When I was hired to work at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), it was not disclosed to me that the site was being hit by powerful sonic booms from military supersonic aircraft that would shake the buildings. I had noticed that there seemed to be a significant number of staff that were having heart issues and some appeared to have had heart attacks and died prematurely. I later discovered during researching my own heart issues that it was a suspected effect of exposure to sonic booms. Regular exposure to sonic booms from military supersonic jet aircraft is suspected of increasing the incidence of vibroacoustic disease, a thickening of heart tissue which may lead to heart arrhythmia or premature death.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Kitt Peak National Observatory was infested with rodents. There were so many that rodent traps were in daily use there.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.”

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Book:Health Forensics

Source: Health Forensics

“As far as I am aware, I am the only person in the world researching High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD) and that makes me the world’s leading expert on the subject.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as they discharged it into the indoor environment at high altitude.”

“My dislike of the W. M. Keck Observatory, Columbia University and Dartmouth College is based on unpleasant experiences in their employment.”

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Author:Steven w Magee

“There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“It is time to end the willful incompetence regarding altitude sickness and shift work disorder in professional astronomy.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The Hale [telescope] is a refinery for light.”

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Author:Richard Preston

“Metal astronomical observatory domes and metal buildings are a form of the Faraday cage.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Hearing loss is a known effect of high altitude barotrauma.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The leading research on High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD) is coming out of the USA from a British Chartered Engineer.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona at the much lower altitude of 6,875 feet. Due to my very high altitude experiences, I knew that this strange sickness was not primarily caused by altitude sickness and was most likely Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). After reporting various behavioral problems in all of the staff to the management team, my contract was not renewed, I was unable to legally protect the health and safety of the workers that I was responsible for, troubleshooting of this environmental problem stopped and I left in a sickened state for my next position before I could find the root cause.”

“When I worked the day shift at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, a registered nurse came to visit and commented that my breathing during sleep was irregular. I had no idea what altitude induced central sleep apnea was at that time and ignored the comment. Many years later I was diagnosed with a variety of sleep disorders.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Keeping a human in a state of altitude induced central sleep apnea for many years should be expected to bring on a wide range of adverse health conditions.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“For some sleep apnea patients that use CPAP machines, they develop the more severe Complex Sleep Apnea during long term treatment.”

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Author:Steven Magee