From: charles patterson <cwp.patterson@gmail.com> To: brenna7@ymail.

com Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:39 PM Subject: website - responses to your questions

Dear Brenna and Margaux, Below are my responses to your questions regarding my father and his research. I hope this information is helpful in completing your informative website. Thank you so much for your interest in my father's battle with the Ethyl Corporation. Please let me know if I can be of additional assistance. Again, best of luck on your competition! Charles Patterson 1.What was is about Dr. Patterson's personality that made him so dedicated to the removal of lead from gasoline? My father worked on the Manhattan Project, helping to produce the enriched uranium required for the atomic bomb. This caused him a great sense of guilt because of all the innocent people that died as a result of its use. When he realized how many people would die and suffer as a consequence of the lead we were releasing into our environment, I think he felt it was his moral obligation to put a halt to it. He felt that somehow it would atone for his involvement in the use of the atomic bomb on innocent Japanese citizens during World War II. 2.My research suggests that Dr. Patterson's testimony in the Muskie Senate Hearings was a turning point in his campaign. Do you agree with this? His testimony, for the first time, officially placed in the public record the true scientific facts about lead pollution. Although most people did not fully understand the purely scientific way he expressed those facts, it convinced others who did understand the consequences and were capable of putting those facts into laymens terms, to come forward and make sure people listened. My father felt the science involved should speak for itself. He found it hard to understanding how any person with integrity and the ability to interpret the data could dispute it. After the overwhelming scientific evidence he provided so meticulously and precisely became public, the titans of industry had no credible response. 3.How did oil companies, other scientists, researchers, etc attempt to stop and discredit Dr. Patterson's campaign?

The oil companies went to great expense to suppress and defund my fathers research. All of the research they funded was guaranteed to produce the results they desired. This is because there were no other scientists in the field that had solved the difficult problem of measuring minute quantities of lead without contaminating their samples. Accurate measurements required accounting for all the sources of lead that come from the process of collection and analysis. Since his data did not coincide with everyone elses in the field, most were not willing to admit they might be wrong, and had no financial incentive to question their own methods. My father felt these oblivious researchers were not true scientists in the sense that, no matter what the motivation was behind their research, in the end, scientific truths are the ultimate objective. 4.What do you think bothered Dr. Patterson the most about the criticisms being waged against him? His compassion for science, and respect for the scientific method led to great frustration when witnessing the carelessness that others in the field showed in the collection and analysis of their samples and data. He realized that essentially all previous lead data in the literature that scientists relied upon was highly inaccurate. My father spent countless hours sequestered away in his specially constructed soundproof office at Cal Tech, devising ingenious ways only he would think of, to prove he was right and everyone else was wrong about the true natural body burden of lead. 5.What do you think was in Dr. Patterson's opinion his greatest achievement? His research led to the saving of countless lives and prevention of catastrophic damage to the nervous systems of the human race. But he felt that his greatest achievement was providing the scientific foundation for society to redirect the misguided course of human consciousness, thought, and behavior, due to environmental pollutants. 6.Did Dr. Patterson ever discuss with you his feelings on the conflict of interest that occurs when researchers are funded by the sellers of the product they are researching? He realized that funding for research often came from those who profited from the results. He would explode in anger and frustration when scientists were not true to the scientific method and failed to act with integrity. He did not suffer fools lightly, and had a difficult time being diplomatic in expressing his opinions on the validity of the research being done by others in the early years of his epic battle. He eventually selected several people in the field from around the world to bring into his lab at Cal Tech and train them on how to successfully collect and analyze data. If you were willing to learn, he would do everything in his power to make sure you succeeded. He became the ultimate teacher. In the end, my father came to accept the imperfections in other peoples abilities

and approaches toward their research but he never accepted compromising ones integrity or the scientific results. 7.What impact did Dr. Patterson's campaign have on the United States and other scientists? Virtually every area of research that involves the measurement of trace elements is done using methods developed by my father. If not for his research, all the scientific literature related to the pollution of our environment with lead and many other elements would have led to a flawed matrix of scientific knowledge, resulting in environmental disaster. 8.Is there anything else you think we need to add to our website? Although my father had no interest in fame or fortune, his family, friends and colleagues are proud that he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Tyler Laureate, the recipient of a premier international prize often considered the ultimate award for environmental achievement. My father was feared by his detractors, revered as the ultimate scientist by his colleagues, and loved by all who experienced his great compassion and mischievous sense of humor. Anyone who ever met him never forgot the experience.