[ RadSafe ] " Seaborne Fukushima Radiation Plume Hits West Coast - How the Media Reported it Dangerously Wrong "

Mon Dec 26 17:16:35 CST 2016

That's an excellent text.  Thank you !

Unfortunately no mention of John Gofman.

 Jaro
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      The old Gofman ideas about radiation risk qre completely wrong!
      See my online book chapter.

      Ionizing Radiation Carcinogenesis - InTech

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On 12/26/2016 12:30 PM, Jaro Franta wrote:
> John Gofman cited in " How the Media Reported it Dangerously Wrong "
>
> " According to Gofman's obituary in the L.A. Times, "Gofman and his 
> colleague at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Arthur R. 
> Tamplin, developed data in 1969 showing that the risk from low doses 
> of radiation was
> 20 times higher than stated by the government.
> Their publication of the data, despite strong efforts to censor it, 
> led them to lose virtually all of their research funding and, 
> eventually, their positions at the government laboratory."
> Their conclusions were for the most part, later validated."
>
> "Consuming food containing radionuclides is particularly dangerous. If 
> an individual ingests or inhales a radioactive particle, it continues 
> to irradiate the body as long as it remains radioactive and stays in the
body,"
> said Dr. Alan Lockwood, MD in an article on Fox News Health.
>
>
> Jaro
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>
>
> http://www.environews.tv/121716-no-safe-level-period-media-got-dangero
> usly-w rong-fukushima-radiation-hitting-west-coast/
> Seaborne Fukushima Radiation Plume Hits West Coast - How the Media 
> Reported it Dangerously Wrong
>
> bureau EnviroNews DC News Bureau
> by Shad Engkilterra
> on December 17, 2016
>
> (EnviroNews DC News Bureau) - "It is not a question any more: 
> radiation produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way down 
> to the lowest doses," says the late Dr. John Gofman, Professor 
> Emeritus at the University of California, Berkley, in his book Nuclear
Witnesses: Insiders Speak Out.
>
> On December 12, 2016, EnviroNews USA's own Editor-in-Chief Emerson 
> Urry touched off a firestorm with his news article titled, "It's Finally
Here:
> Radioactive Plume From Fukushima Makes Landfall on America's West Coast,"
> which claimed "medical science and epidemiological studies have 
> demonstrated time and again that there is no safe amount of radiation 
> for a living organism to be subjected to - period."
>
> In his piece, Urry also exposed other news agencies like NBC, the New 
> York Post, USA Today and The Inquisitr, catching them with their pants 
> down, in the act of repeating the false assertions of the U.S. and 
> Canadian researchers, telling people not to worry about the recently 
> detected low amounts of cesium 134 found in salmon, and that the 
> levels were within "safe" or "accepted" thresholds for human health.
> [EDITOR'S NOTE: Emerson Urry recused himself from all editorial duties 
> on this news story.]
>
> Thom Hartmann picked up the article by Urry and read it on his show.
> Then Hartmann offered up his own journalistic explanation on how 
> radiation works, and addressed the problem with the proclamation that 
> there is a "safe" level of radiation to consume or be exposed to.
> "As the element is decaying it is throwing off radiation, and the 
> radiation, if it hits the DNA in the nucleolus and the nucleus of a 
> cell, can alter that DNA in ways that can produce things like cancer,"
Hartmann said.
> "Now it can also cause simply the cell to die or it can mutate the 
> cell in all kinds of other weird ways, and so it's kind of a numbers game.
> If you irradiate a million cells. you might get two or three that 
> become cancerous.
> That's all it takes, right? You've got cancer," Hartmann continued in 
> his video report.
> "The cesium could cause no cancer, or it could cause cancer in the 
> first cell it irradiates.
> To say that there is a safe level of radiation is frankly wrong. It's 
> just wrong."
>
> VIDEO: THOM HARTMANN REPORTS ON ENVIRONEWS OREGON'S ARTICLE ON 
> FUKUSHIMA PLUME HITTING AMERICA'S WEST COAST
>
> There's No Such Thing As A Safe Level of Radiation!
>
> Urry said later in a statement, "It's one thing for the media to 
> regurgitate trivial facts on trivial matters, but to blindly repeat 
> that consuming low levels of radiation is 'safe,' is irresponsible 
> reporting and borders on dangerous.
>
> News editors should take care to do their due diligence on a matter as 
> serious as leading readers to believe consuming any amount of 
> radiation is 'safe' when medical science and epidemiology, dating back 
> 50 years to the present, have demonstrated repeatedly that that's just 
> not true.
> Even the smallest exposures increase the risk of cancer to the subject."
>
> According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's 
> (ATSDR) report titled, "Public Health Statement for Cesium" from 2004, 
> "stable and radioactive cesium can enter your body from the food you 
> eat or the water you drink, from the air you breathe, or from contact with
your skin.
> When you eat, drink, breathe, or touch things containing cesium 
> compounds that can easily be dissolved in water, cesium enters your 
> blood and is carried to all parts of your body. No known taste or odor 
> is associated with cesium compounds."
>
> Cesium is similar enough to potassium that it can fool the body.
> This results in its bioaccumulation.
> When cesium enters the biological system of a fish, which is then 
> eaten by a larger fish, the larger fish becomes contaminated.
> As the larger fish eats more, it becomes more contaminated.
> The cesium accumulates in its body.
> When a person eats that fish, he or she also ingests the cesium that 
> hasn't decayed or been excreted.
>
> The more seafood that person eats, the more radioactive material he or 
> she will be exposed to.
> The researchers who discovered the cesium recently also made the 
> mistake of equating the dangers of consuming seaborne isotopes to that 
> of receiving an x-ray, missing the point entirely that ingested or 
> inhaled "internal particle emitters" are known to be especially hazardous.
>
> "Consuming food containing radionuclides is particularly dangerous. If 
> an individual ingests or inhales a radioactive particle, it continues 
> to irradiate the body as long as it remains radioactive and stays in the
body,"
> said Dr. Alan Lockwood, MD in an article on Fox News Health.
>
> "Children are much more susceptible to the effects of radiation and 
> stand a much greater chance of developing cancer than adults," said 
> Andrew Kanter, MD, President of the Board for Physicians for Social 
> Responsibility (PSR) in that same Fox News Health article. "So it is 
> particularly dangerous when they consume radioactive food or water."
>
> Those who might expect the government to protect them from 
> contamination by radiation have only to look at the downwinder 
> situation in Utah or the consequences of Gofman's research in the late
1960s.
>
> According to Gofman's obituary in the L.A. Times, "Gofman and his 
> colleague at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Arthur R. 
> Tamplin, developed data in 1969 showing that the risk from low doses 
> of radiation was 20 times higher than stated by the government.
> Their publication of the data, despite strong efforts to censor it, 
> led them to lose virtually all of their research funding and, 
> eventually, their positions at the government laboratory."
> Their conclusions were for the most part, later validated.
> "There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from food, 
> water or other sources, period," said Jeff Patterson, DO, immediate 
> past President of PSR, in late March of 2011 in the immediate aftermath of
the meltdowns.
> "Exposure to radionuclides, such as iodine 131 and cesium 137, 
> increases the incidence of cancer. For this reason, every effort must 
> be taken to minimize the radionuclide content in food and water."
>
> "There is no safe dose of radiation," says Prof. Edward P. Radford, 
> Physician and Epidemiologist as quoted by GreenMedInfo.
>
> In an email to EnviroNews, nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said Japan 
> had raised the maximum allowable exposure by 20 times the previous 
> number for civilians to be able to return to their homes.
>
> The U.S. and the EPA have considered such plans in the case of a 
> nuclear accident.
> In food, the U.S. has an allowable dosage of radiation that is 12 
> times what Japan allows.
> "Corporations get the benefit, civilians take the risk," Gundersen wrote.
>
> While Urry and Hartmann have sounded the alarm, there remain 
> unanswered questions that desperately need to be resolved.
> Who will clean up the contamination in the food chain?
> How much radiation exposure will governments continue to say is safe 
> in spite of the medical research?
> How can people trust what's on their plate and in their corporate 
> owned media?
>
>
>
>
> .
>
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