[ RadSafe ] Chernobyl fallout and school outcome, Strange it was published in Chemistry World

[parthasarathy k s]

Dear Dr Cederval,

Thank you for the response. I  found that in their original "Report",  the authors are expressing their thanks to some well known radio-biologists and scientists including Prof Eric Hall, Dr Brenner, Prof. per Hall among others. It is not clear that they reviewed the report and agreed with the conclusions. The tendency to publish papers of this type without giving it an opportunity for peer review is lamentable.

Regards
K.S.Parthasarathy

----- Original Message ----
From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers at hotmail.com>
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Sent: Friday, 17 August, 2007 2:39:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl fallout and school outcome, Strange it was published in Chemistry World

>I was surprised to note that the authors who are qualified in economics  
>released the conclusions of a study which required knowledge of  
>radio-biology  in Chemistry World, a journal which publishes latest 
>chemistry news every day!

As you can see - one of the authors has also specialized on the theory of 
prostitution, the marriage market etc (and the "nuclear family"!).

>
>  In any case, the paper has the potential to create a lot of fury and 
>noise signifying nothing. In the meanwhile, it may cause unnecessary 
>anxiety among pregnant or potentially pregnant radiation workers and 
>patients
>
It already created some "noise" in Sweden.

>The period  high sensitivity for the fetus (based on Horishima studies) is 
>8 to 15 weeks post conception. Why the authors chose children irradiated in 
>utero 8 to 25 weeks post conception is not clear.

I agree - it will be interesting to see why they chose the 25 week 
truncation.

Then I say - what could the number of pregnancies with weeks 8-25 be? A 
first rough estimate I made (size order) would land at something like 400 
(200-800). Say an underlying population of 100000 people. 50000 females but 
only a fraction of these will be pregnant weeks 8-25 (average number of 
children per woman in Sweden is probably close to 2).


>The authors should have published their paper in a peer reviewed 
>radio-biology journal.
It is probably "better" for the paper to be published in a journal where the 
editorial board has less perspective on the subject...

My personal reflections only,

bcradsafers at hotmail.com      Bjorn Cedervall

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