[ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 769, Issue 1

Tue Oct 11 13:04:47 CDT 2011

Iranians arming the Shia;-)

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On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:58 PM, "Busby, Chris" <C.Busby at ulster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Dear Tony Harrison MSPH
>
> It is a difference in Uranium content (and Uranium isotopes) in hair between Sweden and Fallujah.
> It has nothing to do with pre and ante natal care in Sweden and Fallujah.
> Why would you imagine Uranium in hair has anything to do with pre and ante natal care in Sweden? What is your logic??????????
>
> If you are saying that the levels of Congenital anomalies are higher in Iraq than in Sweden becasue of pre/ante natal care you are wrong. We disposed of that one in a previous paper where we compared with Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait and indeed in this one were we draw attemntion to the significant increase in congenital anomalies in the children of Gulf War veterans.
>
> The reason there were no controls for births without congenital anomalies is that everyone was contaminated. The controls were Sweden, Israel, other countries where U was measured in hair. Check the paper.
>
> Buit what none of you have commented on is the fact that we measured ENRICHED Uranium.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Harrison, Tony
> Sent: Tue 11/10/2011 15:15
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 769, Issue 1
>
> Had he picked controls from Fallujah who DID NOT have babies with abnormalities, he could have made a nice case/control study out of it.  It's not likely that he'd have seen an effect from uranium, so I guess that explains why he didn't do that.
>
> I think he's mostly comparing the quality of pre-natal care in Sweden to that in Iraq.  Significant difference!  I'm shocked!
>
>
> Tony Harrison, MSPH
> Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
> Laboratory Services Division
> 303-692-3046
>
>
> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:02:52 -0700
> From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe at ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 764, Issue 3
> To: "The International Radiation Protection \(Health Physics\) Mailing
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> At 12:47 AM 10/7/2011, Busby, Chris wrote:
>>    Uranium and other contaminants in hair from the parents of
>> children with congenital anomalies in Fallujah, Iraq
>> Samira Alaani, Muhammed Tafash, Christopher Busby, Malak Hamdan and
>> Eleonore Blaurock-Busch Conflict and Health 2011, 5:15 (2 September 2011)
>> http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/5/1/15
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> The chemical analysis in this study may be okay, but the logic
> surrounding the so-called effects in this paper is fatally flawed.
> Traces of uranium are in food and water, and everybody has some
> uranium in the body. However, it is one of the least toxic of the
> heavy metals.
>
> It. is not surprising that there may be significant differences in
> traces of uranium in people who live in different parts of world.
>
> Guilt by selective association is not science. I do not believe that
> this paper could ever be accepted by any major epidemiology journal.
>
> In one of the classes that taught at UCD I had the students read
> "Deadly Deceit" by Jay Gould and Benjamin Goldman (1990) so that
> could recognize the faulty one-dimensional logic of the dedicated
> anti-nuclear activists such as Busby.
>
> Otto
>
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