[ RadSafe ] Re: Basrah cancers

[Otto Raabe]

At 12:41 PM 1/24/2007, James Salsman wrote:
>Dr. Raabe, at what confidence level would the increases reported in
>Basrah be significant?
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Dear Mr. Salsman,

I use alpha=0.05, which was not achieved with those data. Even if they were 
significantly different, there is no evidence that they are connected in 
any way to depleted uranium in the environment, There are many factors that 
affect disease incidence including weather, diet, and especially improved 
disease surveillance.

I suspect that you have already convinced yourself of the imaginary risks 
of depleted uranium, and you are just searching for things that will 
support your dogmatic position.  By selecting only things that seem to 
support your position and discarding things that obviously conflict with 
it, you will never benefit from information on this forum.

Otto


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Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
Center for Health & the Environment
University of California
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Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail: ograabe at ucdavis.edu
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