[ RadSafe ] Naval Health Research Center's Birth and Infant Health Registry

[James Salsman]

Otto Raabe wrote:

> This FAI request seems to be a fishing expedition involving
> asking for imaginary records about activist-conceived health
> effects from uranium and unspecified toxicants.

The BIHR is not "imaginary":
  http://www.bovik.org/du/mscusn/BIHR_annual_report_2000.pdf

A request for a database and its schema is hardly a fishing
expedition.  Since the Electronic FOIA amendments have been
law, such requests have been commonplace.

Counting birth defects by marital status (no significant
effect) but failing to break out the populations exposed to
known teratogens is pathetic.

What are you afraid of?  If the effect is only "activist-
conceived," then releasing the February 1991 ODS combat
veteran birth defect rate data would prove you right, right?

Sincerely,
James Salsman