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Medicine's Timothy Ciesielski studies East Palestine’s train derailment

Media | February 06, 2026 | Story by: Editorial Staff

Jacobin Magazine: Timothy Ciesielski, research scientist in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the School of Medicine, is part of a multi-university team studying the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, challenging claims minimizing long-term risks. He emphasized that “there was a noncontroversial, universal consensus that you would not know that” residents would avoid health impacts, highlighting ongoing uncertainty over environmental and health consequences.

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