Maybe Appalachian Babies Have Birth Defects Because of Inbreeding, Lawyers Suggest
Lauri Apple · 10/08/11 05:16PMFour lawyers face an ethics complaint after helpfully pointing out that a study of mountaintop mining and birth defects in Appalachia "failed to account for consanquinity [sic], one of the most prominent sources of birth defects." In non-legalese: maybe those babies have defects because of how hillbillies like to screw within the family all the time.