[ RadSafe ] "Science" also misrepresents the "Chernobyl Forum" report

[John Jacobus]

Jim,
Why don't you write a letter to "Science?"   I don't
you have to be a "credentialed scientists" to do so.

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> Friends,
> 
>  
> 
> It is discouraging that so many supposedly
> "science-oriented" media and
> organizations are biased to promote the
> science-funding agency agenda.
> 
>  
> 
> Hopefully, there will be comment letters to
> "Science" from credentialed
> scientists!  
> 
>  
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> 
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> 
>  
> 
> Science, Vol 309, Issue 5741, 1663 , 9 September
> 2005
> 
>  
> 
> 
> News of the Week
> 
> 
> NUCLEAR MEDICINE:
> Panel Puts Eventual Chornobyl Death Toll in
> Thousands
> 
> 
> John Bohannon*
>
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5741/1663#affiliation#affilia
> tion>  
> 
> VIENNA, AUSTRIA--A study released this week predicts
> that 4000 people or even
> more will die from cancers caused by the 1986
> Chornobyl nuclear accident, a
> figure that dwarfs the 50 known deaths linked to the
> disaster so far. The
> report,*
>
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5741/1663#footnote#footnote>
> compiled by the Chernobyl Forum, a joint effort of
> eight United Nations
> agencies and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus,
> and Russia, also highlights
> the thousands who are suffering a variety of mental
> health problems since the
> accident. 
> . . .

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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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