[ RadSafe ] [ RadSafe Life's lottery

[Fred Dawson GoogleMail]

Because people feel a need to attribute blame or fault as they cannot accept
that chance plays a significant part in their misfortune. To a certain
extent this perception is reinforced by lawyers engaged in claims farming
and scepticism of main stream science views on issues such as radiation and
the risk of cancer

Fred Dawson  

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry Cohen
Sent: 16 May 2011 03:04
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] [ RadSafe Life's lottery



Why is it that it is so difficult for most people to accept that many their 
misfortunes are   

the result of random events and, that they are simply losers in "life's 
lottery"? If there was a nuclear power plant located near Fallon, they would

likely "know" the cause of the leukemia.



________________________________
From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List 
<radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu>
Sent: Sun, May 15, 2011 6:31:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] How can you explain cancer clusters?

May 15

        The leukemia cluster a few years ago in and around Fallon, NV, was 
investigated to a fare-thee-well with no conclusive results.

Steven Dapra


At 03:17 PM 5/15/2011, you wrote:
> I have a reprint somewhere from the Journal of Pediatrics; a 1968 study of

>clusters of childhood leukemia in Los Angeles.  They found 7 clusters,
randomly 
>distributed.  Researchers concluded that cluster studies were NOT worth 
>persuing.
> 
> 
> Joel Cehn, CHP


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