[ RadSafe ] Re: Shipyard worker study

[John Jacobus]

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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