In the New York Post this morning:

Mayor Bloomberg jumped mouth-first into the heated debate over the cause of death of a retired detective who worked tirelessly at Ground Zero — saying science showed “this was not a hero.”

The mayor’s cold comment, based on the ME’s assertion that misuse of prescription drugs led to the death of Detective James Zadroga, sickened and angered his friends and associates.
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Earlier this month, the city’s medical examiner ruled Zadroga’s death was caused by his misuse of prescription drugs, not from inhaling toxic dust at Ground Zero, where he worked for more than 400 hours, as a New Jersey ME had said. Zadroga family lawyer Michael Barasch was aghast at the mayor’s remarks, saying, “I wish Mayor Bloomberg had taken the time to do a little research to see what prescription medication Mr. Zadroga had received.”

“He would have seen Mr. Zadroga was taking up to 14 pills a day. Even if [city medical examiner] Dr. [Charles] Hirsch is correct about what killed Mr. Zadroga, and I am not saying that he is, what difference does it make? At the end of the day Mr. Zadroga would still be with us had it not been for the World Trade Center exposure.”

Bloomberg made the remark in Boston during a question-and-answer session at Harvard. Weighing in on the ME’s finding, he flatly declared, “Science says this was not a hero.”

Science?

Police Officer Zadroga risked his life searching for the living and the dead. Had Mayor Bloomberg joined him there — actually crawling around that Pile for even a few hours helping with the search — then perhaps he’d have a better sense of things.

‘Hero’ is an opinion. Regardless of what caused Police Officer Zadroga’s death, he is a hero to many of us.

Mayor Bloomberg is an arrogant zero.

I write that not based upon any scientific data. It is just my opinion.