[ RadSafe ] new post RE: FW: SCAREMONGERING FOR FUN AND PROFIT --RE: The Bereted Wonder and his Pills; from chris
ROY HERREN
royherren2005 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 19 19:06:18 CDT 2011
Please see the following article titled "Study links pollutants to a 450 percent
increase in risk of birth defects". How did you manage to exclude all other
potential causes of birth defects in your determininition that the "man-made
Enriched Uranium" was the "main cause of the high levels of cancer and
congenital disease"?
"Uranium levels were significantly higher than those expected on the basis of
other published control measurements of uncontaminated populations, particularly
Israel and Sweden". Did you actually use someone elses measurement in Israel
and Sweden as your "control" for your study in Iraq? If so, how is that "good
science"?
Roy Herren
Public release date: 19-Oct-2011
Contact: Richard Finnell
rfinnell at austin.utexas.edu
512-495-3001
University of Texas at Austin
Study links pollutants to a 450 percent increase in risk of birth defects
Many other congenital conditions, including autism, may one day prove to be
related to environmental pollutants
IMAGE: Richard Finnell checks on a newborn in Shanxi Province.
Click here for more information.
AUSTIN, Texas — Pesticides and pollutants are related to an alarming 450 percent
increase in the risk of spina bifida and anencephaly in rural China, according
to scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Peking University.
Two of the pesticides found in high concentrations in the placentas of affected
newborns and stillborn fetuses were endosulfan and lindane. Endosulfan is only
now being phased out in the United States for treatment of cotton, potatoes,
tomatoes and apples. Lindane was only recently banned in the United States for
treatment of barley, corn, oats, rye, sorghum and wheat seeds.
Strong associations were also found between spina bifida and anencephaly and
high concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are
byproducts of burning fossil fuels such as oil and coal. Spina bifida is a
defect in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth.
Anencephaly is the absence of a large part of the brain and skull.
"Our advanced industrialized societies have unleashed upon us a lot of
pollutants," says Richard Finnell, professor of nutritional sciences and
director of genomic research at the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central
Texas. "We've suspected for a while that some of these pollutants are related to
an increase in birth defects, but we haven't always had the evidence to show it.
Here we quite clearly showed that the concentration of compounds from pesticides
and coal-burning are much higher in the placentas of cases with neural tube
defects than in controls."
The study, which was published in August in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, is the result of a more than decadelong collaboration
between Finnell and a team of researchers in Shanxi, a province in northern
China.
Finnell sought collaborators in China because the prevalence of neural tube
defects is much greater there than it is in the United States. Also, because of
its population policies, China is good at tracking births.
"It's an extraordinary natural experiment," says Finnell, who was recently
recruited to the university to help anchor the Dell Pediatric Research
Institute. "It would be much harder to do this study in the United States, where
neural tube defects are more rare. It's also an opportunity to assist the
Chinese government in their efforts to lower their birth defect rates."
Working with public health officials in four rural counties in Shanxi,
researchers collected placentas from 80 newborn or stillborn fetuses that
suffered from spina bifida or anencephaly. Once a fetus or a newborn with such
defects was identified as a case, the placenta of a healthy newborn with no
congenital malformations born in the same hospital was selected as a control.
Finnell and his colleagues screened these placentas for the presence of a class
of substances known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Common POPs include
agricultural pesticides, industrial solvents and the byproducts of burning fuels
such as oil and coal.
They found strong associations between the birth defects and high levels of a
number of compounds present in commonly used pesticides. They also found
elevated placental concentrations of PAHs.
"This is a region where they mine and burn a lot of coal," says Finnell. "Many
people cook with coal in their homes. The air is often black. You don't need to
be a rocket scientist to say that maybe there's something in there that isn't
good for babies."
Finnell says although the environmental conditions in Shanxi are dramatically
worse than they are in most areas of the United States, they are comparable to
what the United States was like a century ago, and the neural tube defects are
not solely a Chinese problem.
Every year approximately 3,000 pregnancies in the United States are complicated
by neural tube defects. Many other congenital conditions, including autism, may
one day prove to be related to environmental pollutants.
"Ultimately you need enough cells to make a proper, healthy baby," says Finnell,
"and these are the types of compounds that cause cell death. At the most basic
level, we're learning that environmental things kill cells, and if that occurs
in a critical progenitor population at a crucial time, you're going to have
problems."
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From: "Busby, Chris" <C.Busby at ulster.ac.uk>
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--RE: The Bereted Wonder and his Pills; from chris
Press release: 17th October 2011
The cause of congenital anomaly and cancer in Fallujah Iraq is identified as
Enriched Uranium from novel weapons systems deployed by the US.
http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/5/1/15
Remarkably high levels of congenital anomaly at birth, together with high cancer
rates in Fallujah, Iraq were previously found in a joint UK Iraqi
epidemiological study published in the International Journal of Environment and
Public Health in July 2010 and reported in The Independent. The illnesses and
unusual changes in the sex-ratio at birth, were shown to appear following the
US-led attacks on the town in 2004. Many believed that Depleted Uranium weapons
were employed but no evidence of this was available. USA forces denied using
DU. Now, one year after this, the authors have nailed down the cause of the
genetic and genomic effects found in Fallujah. Samira Alaani and Muhammed
Tafash, two paediatricians at Fallujah General Hospital, Chris Busby, Visiting
Professor at the University of Ulster, Malak Hamdan, a chemical engineer and
Eleonore Blaurock Busch, whose laboratory in Germany carried out analytical work
will publish in the peer-reviewed journal Conflict and Health the results of an
exhaustive study of contamination in Fallujah. They began by analysing the hair
of 25 parents of children with congenital malformations using highly sensitive
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS). Metal contamination is
excreted into hair at same rate as it is excreted into urine. There were high
values of Calcium, Magnesium, Strontium, Aluminium, Bismuth, Mercury and
Uranium. However, of these only Uranium, which is radioactive, is associated
with cancer and birth defects. Uranium levels were significantly higher than
those expected on the basis of other published control measurements of
uncontaminated populations, particularly Israel and Sweden. Levels reported for
soil, tap, river and well water were unable to explain the hair results, but
showed, surprisingly that the environmental Uranium was not natural but was
man-made. It was not, however DU. The ratio of the two isotopes of Uranium U238
and U235 is always 138 in natural Uranium deposits. For DU, the ratio is always
high: pure DU has a ratio above 400. However, in Fallujah, both in the hair of
the parents and in the environmental samples, the Uranium ratio was
significantly low, implying the presence of Enriched Uranium. To investigate
the source of the Uranium, because the Moslem women in Fallujah have long hair,
and hair grows at a known rate or about 1cm a month, the team was able to obtain
historic exposure information by analysing along the length of the hair of 5
women. Hair contamination was much higher in the past. In the case of one woman
whose hair was 80cm long, taking the hair end back to 2005, just after the
attack, the Uranium concentration in 2011 defined exposures to very high levels
of uranium in the past. In the paper, the authors introduce evidence that the
effects on child health are clear to see in the whole of Iraq as well as in the
children of Gulf War veterans. This is also true for childhood cancer which was
reported in the epidemiological study to be shockingly high in Fallujah with
rates about 14 times those expected on the basis of populations in Egypt. The
anomalously high genotoxic effects of Uranium are also discussed. Uranium binds
to DNA and work by Chris Busby reported in New Scientist in 2009 shows that the
element concentrates natural background gamma radiation into the DNA through a
process termed the secondary photoelectron effect.
Given that man-made Enriched Uranium is found in the Fallujah environment
and that levels were higher in the past, the authors conclude that a uranium
based weapon of some type was employed in the Battle of Fallujah, and is the
main cause of the high levels of cancer and congenital disease. The paper
discusses weapons systems and cites patents which call for the use of Uranium in
shaped charges and other types of anti-personnel weapons (rather than the
anti-tank DU weapons used in GW1). Included also are thermobaric devices and
novel uranium packed explosives which kill by charring victims and pressure
effects which cause lung collapse.
It is of interest that Enriched Uranium signatures have also turned up in other
recent battlefields, notably in the Lebanon, where soil from a missile crater in
Khiam and also dust from an ambulance air filter both showed the presence of
Enriched Uranium in 2006, a finding reported in The Independent by Robert Fisk.
The authors are unable to explain why these weapons contain or produce slightly
enriched Uranium and call for the military to now reveal the truth about the
weapons systems being employed in modern battlefields.
Dr Busby said: What we have found makes it perfectly clear that a new generation
of Uranium based weapons exists, is being employed in all modern battlefields
and leads to shocking increases in cancer and congenital illness in innocent
civilians and soldiers alike. Whether there is slightly enriched Uranium to
cover up the use of Uranium weapons, or whether the enrichment is an integral
requirement of some new weapons system, what we see is the deployment of a
device of indiscriminate effect with terrible and indiscriminate consequences.
It is most likely that this weapon is also being employed by NATO forces in
Libya, and we will wait and watch with concern for increases in cancer and birth
defects following this latest war.
He continued: There has been a sustained effort to stop us making this study and
then to stop us publishing it. We have been attacked by people writing to our
funders so we had no money to pay for the analyses, to the Journals we were
sending the study to even before we sent it, to our Universities and Hospitals
and Institutions. It was rejected by The Lancet without even being sent for
Peer Review. It was rejected by the International Journal of Environment and
Public Health where we published our previous paper, without being sent to a
reviewer on the basis of pressure brought on the editor from outside by people
who hacked into the computers of the authors and knew about the paper before the
journal received it. The implications of this discovery are extremely serious.
• First it means that all the measurements made for Depleted Uranium DU on
Gulf War 2 veterans are now useless as indications of exposure to Uranium dust
and must be revisited.
• Second it shows that Uranium is now being used routinely in anti-personnel
weapons and no longer only in anti tank weapons.
• Finally it means that the focus of the NGOs on banning Depleted Uranium
(DU) is misplaced and such a ban pointless since DU has not been deployed for a
long time as the military rightly (and with some concealed amusement) say.
The local civilian effects and global civilian exposures to this material
represents a human rights issue of the greatest magnitude.
Malak Hamdan added:
This extraordinary discovery of a new uranium weapon should serve as a wake-up
call to the entire world. It is as if the military were at war with humanity,
secretively winning their battles with what is effectively a kind of
delayed-action radioactive poison gas. They cannot keep denying that these
radioactive weapons can discriminate in their effects between military and
non-military targets. Because of this, enormous numbers of innocent people have
died and will die in the future. Countless parents will watch their children
with horror and pity as for several generations children will continue to be
born with congenital anomalies as result of the genetic heritable effects
induced by this exposure to uranium dust.
Dr Chris Busby is Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster, Guest
Reseacher at the German Federal Agricultural Laboratory, Julius Kuehn Institute,
Braunschweig, Germany, Director of Green Audit, www.greenaudit.org and is the
Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk
www.euradcom.org
Dr Malak Hamdan is British Iraqi, a Chemical Engineer and is President of the
London-Based Cancer and Birth Defects Foundation
-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Jaro Franta
Sent: Sun 16/10/2011 00:24
To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List'
Subject: [ RadSafe ] new post RE: FW: SCAREMONGERING FOR FUN AND PROFIT --RE:
The Bereted Wonder and his Pills
FYI, I have posted a summary of Busby's scaremongering for profit, **in
French** (along with a couple of pics) here:
http://tinyurl.com/42owcb2
Feel free to add comments -- in either French OR English !
Thanks again,
Jaro
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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Dapra
Sent: October-15-11 6:36 PM
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] FW: SCAREMONGERING FOR FUN AND PROFIT --RE: The
Bereted Wonder and his Pills
Oct. 15
More on Busby in general. This link may have been posted
here a few months ago.
http://junksciencewatch.wordpress.com/
Steven Dapra
At 01:03 PM 10/15/2011, you wrote:
>Thanks Stewart,
>
>Try these:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/3g6uzwe
>
>http://tinyurl.com/3g58sj8 (for this one, you may want to adjust your
>browser zoom setting to 200%)
>
>
> Jaro
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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