[ RadSafe ] Re: Shipyard worker study

[John Jacobus]

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--- John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Keith,
> Here is a review of the shipyard study, and an
> article
> I had on the healthy worker effect.  If you do not
> get
> them, let me know and I will try another.
> 
> Whether or not you accept the idea of "benefits"
> some
> believe this study shows, is your decision.  I am
> just
> supplying you with addition scientific information. 
> Personally, I would not cite a study that may be
> error.  That is what the anti-nuclear crowd
> routinely
> do. 
> 
> --- John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Keith,
> > I believe that I still have a copy of a article
> that
> > reivews the shipyard study.  I check on Monday and
> > send it to you.  
> > 
> > --- Keith Welch <welch at jlab.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks John,
> > > 
> > > The things I am wondering about (anecdotal
> > > information I've heard over 
> > > the years) don't have anything to do with
> asbestos
> > > exposure, but I 
> > > suppose that could be an issue.  However, I
> would
> > > think since asbestos 
> > > illness is fairly well identifiable (from what I
> > > understand) that 
> > > adjustments could be made for that.  It's hard
> to
> > > imagine that the 
> > > existence of asbestos illness in shipyard
> > employees
> > > makes them 
> > > (generally) significantly less healthy than the
> > > general population.  I 
> > > have obtained a copy of the study, and one day,
> > > maybe I'll get a chance 
> > > to actually go through it and try to learn
> > > something.  My questions also 
> > > had to do with review of the study by Cameron
> and
> > > Sponsler.  I don't 
> > > recall seeing in that an indication that the
> > > unexposed cohort was less 
> > > healthy than general population, but I haven't
> > > studied it closely or 
> > > recently.  Does the shipyard study (or any other
> > > study) provide a 
> > > mortality comparison of the unexposed cohort
> with
> > > "general population"?
> > > 
> > > 
> 

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


 
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