[ RadSafe ] response to allegations and news: Vets plus DU pl us the Law

John Jacobus crispy_bird at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 22 14:33:18 CST 2006


Don,
I guess James never read the conclusion of the paper. 
Too bad for all of us.

--- "Mercado, Don" <don.mercado at lmco.com> wrote:

> 
> > From: James Salsman [mailto:james at bovik.org]wrote:
> > 
> > The Mississippi study cited is flawed; this one is
> > better, and
> > from the same time period:
> > 
> > "Prevalence of Birth Defects Among Infants of Gulf
> > War Veterans
> > in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii,
> > and Iowa,
> > 1989-1993," by M.R.G. "Happy" Araneta, et al., in
> > _Birth Defects
> > Research (Part A)_, vol. 67, pp. 246-260 (2003.)
> > 
> >
>
http://www.bovik.org/du/mscusn/BD_Infants_GWV_AR_AZ_CA_GA_HI_IA_1989-199
> 3.pd
> > f
> > 
> > Note that the Basrah University Hospital civilians
> > didn't have
> > the same spike that the U.S. and U.K. troops did.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > James
> > 
> 
> In the conclusion it that study they stated:
> 
> "We did not, however, have the ability to determine
> if the excess was
> caused by inherited, environmental, or synergistic
> factors, or was due
> to chance." They also discuss the statistical
> insufficiencies of the
> study due to low numbers of subjects to study.
> 
> This is an inclusive study where they admit the
> don't know why the
> numbers are the way they are, so to link it do DU is
> simply a pure
> fabrication and verbal terrorism at its worst.
> 
> 


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

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