i just want to thank you for your efforts on this article there are a number of people on wikipedia that go to any length to criticize lawyers maybe sometimes with good reason often with no good reason it was lawyers that finally exposed the cover up of asbestos i just wish it had occurred much earlier than it did today our family finally received a small settlement from babcox wilcox twenty four years after my dad died from mesothelioma and two years after my mother died frankly i had forgotten about it i'm sure my mother would have wished her last years to have been with her husband i know i missed having a dad was that worth not on your life all that did for me is bring back memories and the kind of grief that has never gone away not even after years please don't stop contributing information on these issues the history of asbestos is or should be a cautionary tale of what happens when we believe corporations will self regulate out of their own self interest ayn rand was not a historian she was a fiction writer it is a shame that some people do not seem to understand the difference