[ RadSafe ] Pseudoscientist & Propagandist Chris Busby - anti-DUactivist --WAS Re: Uranium, genetic disease etc...
Geo>K0FF
GEOelectronics at netscape.com
Tue Jul 6 13:13:29 CDT 2010
Yes, thank heaven for nuclear power plants!
We need more.
George Dowell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers at hotmail.com>;
<radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Pseudoscientist & Propagandist Chris Busby -
anti-DUactivist --WAS Re: Uranium, genetic disease etc...
> Hello list members,
>
> Hope US members are managing to keep their cool today during this nasty
> heat wave covering much of the country. As an aside, thank heaven for
> electricity and the widespread availability in the US of air conditioners,
> without which many hundreds of excess deaths more would be occuring now
> among elderly and ill people.
>
> As some prologue, in August 2003, during a extreme 7 day heat wave
> centered in France which reached temps up to 104 F, the French National
> Institute of Health derived an estimate that 14,800 excess heat related
> deaths occured in the elderly due primarily to an absence of air
> conditioning.
> [REFERENCE: ^ Robine, Jean-Marie; Siu Lan K. Cheung,
> Sophie Le Roy, Herman Van Oyen, Clare Griffiths, Jean-Pierre Michel,
> François Richard Herrmann (2008). "Death toll exceeded 30,000 in
> Europe during the summer of 2003". Comptes Rendus Biologies 331 (2):
> 171-178. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2007.12.001. ISSN 1631-0691.
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X1F-4RGFYFD-1/2/0aef30c1f652eec5ae76cf628ef78b8b.]
>
> How many recall the excess heat related deaths in France in 2003. They had
> enough electricity, but air conditioners were not very common in France,
> and the French government [most of which was on summer holiday during
> August] was very slow to put out guidance for the elderly about hydration
> and how to try and keep cool.
>
> Now for a minor rant for a local hot day on Radsafe about radiation
> related health effects claims.
>
> Readers of the "press release" about the claimed extreme hazards of DU
> kindly posted for general info a few days ago by Bjorn Cedervall, should
> know some background on the study author Chris Busby [ be sure not to
> confuse Chris with Bruce Busby] . Chris Busby has been well documented as
> being a pseudoscientist and crude propagandist, . who has become an
> anti-DU activist, willing to say anything and distort information in a
> seemingly scientific manner to deceive the scientifically challenged
> parties that are his target audience.
>
> Chris Busby has exaggerated his professional work experience to make his
> claims seem more credible. Reader beware. The Institutes and publications
> he cites, or claims to be a part of, are largely on-line facades for
> anti-nuclear activists. His distorted claims in the Abstract posted, and
> in many other instances of a host of cancers being expressed among
> potentially exposed people in Iraq, Lebanon, or Afghanistan, immediately
> to 4 years after DU exposure would be simply funny if they were not so
> impactful. Such claims unfortunately are rarely refuted, and prove able to
> influence many innocent readers, governments, legislators, and regulators.
>
> It is astounding how absurd DU claims are generated and circulated. Chris
> Busby has clearly embraced the guidance and techniques of Josef Goebbels,
> when Goebbels stated the following in a training speech for his trainees.
> Although Goebbels mentions the subject of "political speech", the written
> claims of a Busby, or Sternglass, or Mangano, or many other similar sorts,
> still have a political speech intent. See the following excerpt of actual
> quote from Goebbels:
>
>
> "Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average
> minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be
> lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful,
> aesthetically elegant speeches..............The point of a political
> speech is to persuade people of what we think right.....................
> That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a
> movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the
> broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing.
> It
> is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths."
>
>
> Goebbels also said regarding the subject of the "Big Lie":
>
>
> “If you tell a lie big enough
> and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
>
> For some background on Chris Busby, and his actions as a disciple of a
> skilled propagandist see:
>
> http://chrisbusbyexposed.spaces.live.com/
>
> It is fairly obvious that the Health Physics and nuclear interests we are
> all part of, fall into the characterization above by Goebbels of being
> "straw brains" seeking "intellectual truths" and unable to connect with
> the "broad masses".
>
> Truth is clearly the mortal enemy of the lie, but only if it reaches the
> target audience in a way that can be understood and ultimately believed.
> What a challenge to radiation technologies.
>
> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
> Farber Medical Solutions, LLC
> Linac, Imaging, and Rad Instrumentation Brokerage
> Bridgeport, CT 06604
>
>
> [203] 441-8433
> website: http://www.farber-medical.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers at hotmail.com>
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Sent: Sun, July 4, 2010 12:47:39 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Uranium, genetic disease etc...
>
>
>
> Someone sent me the following:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments=1&v=VAp7vlExcCM
>
> Press release
>
> Genetic damage and health in Fallujah Iraq worse than Hiroshima
> Results of a population-based epidemiological study organized by Malak
> Hamdan and Chris Busby are published tomorrow in the International Journal
> of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH) based in Basle,
> Switzerland. They show increases in cancer, leukemia and infant mortality
> and perturbations of the normal human population birth sex ratio
> significantly greater than those reported for the survivors of the A-Bombs
> at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
> Results of a survey in Jan/Feb 2010 of 711 houses and more than 4000
> individuals in Fallujah show that in the five years following the 2004
> attacks by USA-led forces there has been a 4-fold increase in all cancer.
> Interestingly, the spectrum of cancer is similar to that in the Hiroshima
> survivors who were exposed to ionizing radiation from the bomb and uranium
> in the fallout. By comparing the sample population rates to the cancer
> rates in Egypt and Jordan, researchers found there has been a 38-fold
> increase in leukemia (20 cases) almost a 10-fold increase in female
> breast cancer (12 cases) and significant increases in lymphoma and brain
> tumours in adults.
> Based on 16 cases in the 5-year period, the 12-fold increases in childhood
> cancer in those aged 0-14 were particularly marked. The cancer and
> leukemia increases were all in younger people than would normally be
> expected. Infant mortality was found to be 80 per 1000 births which
> compares with a value of 19 in Egypt, 17 in Jordan and 9.7 in Kuwait. An
> important result is that the sex-ratio, which in normal populations is
> always 1050 boys born per 1000 girls was seriously reduced in the group
> born immediately after 2005, one year after the conflict: in this group
> the sex ratio was 860.
> Birth sex ratio is a well known indicator of genetic damage, the reduction
> in boy births being due to the fact that girls have a redundant
> X-chromosome and can therefore afford to lose one though genetic damage;
> boys do not. Sex ratio was similarly reduced in the Hiroshima survivors
> children. “This is an extraordinary and alarming result” said Dr Busby,
> who is visiting Professor in the University of Ulster and Scientific
> Director of Green Audit, an independent environmental research
> organization. He added: “To produce an effect like this, some very major
> mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks happened.
> We need urgently to find out what the agent was. Although many suspect
> Uranium, we cannot be certain without further research and independent
> analysis of samples from the area.” Malak Hamdan, who organized the
> project said: “ I am so glad that we have been able to obtain proper
> scientific confirmation of all the anecdotal
> evidence of cancer and congenital birth defects. Maybe now the
> international community will wake up”.
>
> Contact: Chris Busby (France) +44 7989 428833
> Malak Hamdan (London) +44 7903 153163
> Richard Bramhall: +44 1597 825771
> Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi Cancer, Infant Mortality and
> Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009 Int. J. Environ. Res. Public
> Health 2010, 7, 1-x; doi:10.3390/ijerph707000x
>
> -----------
> Just FYI...
>
> My personal initiative only,
>
> Bjorn Cedervall
>
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