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Wed May 18 15:38:07 CDT 2011


I think "show" might be an overstatement.  "Suggests", or "implies"
might be better.  There are a lot of ways of drawing lines through the
points on the graphs, and coloration does not prove causality. =20

Given the small changes in the ratios (1.055 to 1.047 male/female range
in the US, for example), there are a lot of confounding factors I would
want to see dealt with.  For example, it wouldn't take many abortions
for sex selection to mess up the numbers (NOTE: I am not saying that is
what happened, just using it as an example). =20

This strikes me as a particularly easy thing to test with animal models,
though I know that is more expensive than searching databases.  But I
think I would want to see some animal testing and perhaps a model as to
the mechanics of how it happens before I got too excited.=20

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Huffman
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:48 PM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ] The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric
atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear
facilities

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w822527526045772/

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w822527526045772/fulltext.pdf  free
I think

Popularized review

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nuclear-affects-baby-gender.html
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