[ RadSafe ] Mangano's New Study

[Steven Dapra]

July 2

Maybe on the intellectual level they are cavemen.  Perhaps they are 
left-wing extremist ideologues who have an agenda that doesn't include the 
plain unvarnished (and unpleasant) truth.

Steven Dapra


At 11:21 PM 7/1/07 -0500, Bob Cherry wrote:
>Otto's explanation of this common practice is so simple even a caveman could
>understand it. Why can't reporters?
>
>Remember: Half of all physicians finished in the lower 50 percent of their
>graduating class. 40 percent of sick days are taken on Mondays or Fridays. I
>am shocked...Shocked!
>
>Bob (Pickin') Cherry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
>Of Steven Dapra
>Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:24 PM
>To: Otto Raabe; radsafe at radlab.nl
>Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Mangano's New Study
>
>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
> >One Shields Avenue
> >Davis, CA 95616
> >E-Mail: ograabe at ucdavis.edu
> >Phone: (530) 752-7754   FAX: (530) 758-6140