Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at DMRevans2810@gmail.com.
No problem is so big that we can’t run from it—or at least avoid thinking about it. That’s human nature.
There are many concerns that should command our attention but do not. Too often we hope or assume a serious problem will go away or will spare us.
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, too many of us discount whatever the scientists tell us—as if the anonymous pundit on social media knows more than the people who have devoted their lives to studying a particular problem.
But there is something else I have come to realize, unfortunately. Government leaders in Iowa have shown little interest in understanding “the Big C”—the widespread presence of cancer in Iowa.
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