[ RadSafe ] Busby & other wastes of bandwidth

[Steven Dapra]

Oct. 31

         Point well made and well taken.  That's why I often ask for 
citations so I may read studies.

Steven Dapra


At 10:40 AM 10/31/2011, you wrote:
>It's always good to remember that one anecdote does not an 
>epidemiology study make.
>
>Tony Harrison, MSPH
>Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
>Laboratory Services Division
>303-692-3046
>
>Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:01:29 -0600
>From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Busby is a waste of bandwidth
>To: "The International Radiation Protection \(Health Physics\) Mailing
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>Oct. 28
>
>          Thank you for pointing this out about uranium mill
>workers.  Some 15 y. ago I worked on the UMTRA project.  One of the
>employees told me her father her father worked in the mill.  He would
>come at night covered in yellowcake dust, and now, at age
>approximately 80, he was as healthy as could be.
>
>          The daughter was in perfect health too, and had no birth
>defects or genetic deficiencies.  Perhaps U is not a genotoxin after 
>all. . . .
>
>Steven Dapra
>
>
>At 04:59 PM 10/28/2011, you wrote:
> >Dear Radsafers,
> >
> >I am so fed up with this thread and Busby's weird new weapon coverup
> >fantasies. It is a waste of time.
> >
> >Uranium is present in all soils, at something like 3 ppm +/- a
> >factor of 10 or more.
> >
> >Uranium mill workers over the last half century don't show genetic
> >problems and I bet they have ingested / inhaled similar or indeed
> >much more than Chris's subjects.
> >
> >DU *must* be toxicologically identical to nonD-U.
> >
> >Let's have a bit of common sense here...
> >
> >Can the moderator please call a halt to this pointless debate??
> >
> >
> >Mark Sonter
> >
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> >"There are some ideas that are so wrong that only an intellectual
> >could believe them." - G. Orwell