[ RadSafe ] Mangano's New Study

[Steven Dapra]

July 1

         Thank you, Otto, for noting this common practice of 
anti-nukers.  It's pick-and-choose "science;" "research;" what-have-you.

Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com



At 06:51 PM 7/1/07 -0700, Otto  Raabe wrote:
>At 07:04 PM 6/25/2007, Steven Dapra wrote:
>>         Our Tooth Fairy Project (TFP) friend Joseph Mangano is the 
>> author of the study alleging higher cancer rates in the counties around 
>> the Vogtle reactor.
>*******************************
>Remember, the standard procedure is to find a reactor for which some 
>cancer rates have gone up and claim that the reactor was responsible. Now 
>we can assume that for the 103 power reactors in the U.S. that at least a 
>few are in areas where cancer rates have gone up, maybe even 
>significantly, for unknown reasons that have no relation to any reactor. 
>But, then you selectively publish about this one or more reactors and 
>ignore all those for which local cancer rates went down! Them you imply 
>that all resactor causes cancer!
>
>This doesn't take much effort or time. All you need is some eager young 
>volunteers who believe that reactors are evil, and have them search the 
>available cancer records around all 103 reactors until you find one or 
>more that show cancer rate increases, then you use the usual manuscript 
>template with these data, and you have a new publication that you can send 
>to a reporter looking for a story.
>
>Otto
>
>Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
>Center for Health & the Environment
>University of California
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