FW: Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology "Improvements in local infant health after nuclear power reactor closing"

["Lavera, Ron" <Ron.Lavera@nypa.gov>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Donahue, Patrick 
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 05, 2000 3:06 PM
> 
> There are several items that strike me as being necessary for review in
> order for this article to fully explain the increase/decrease in death
> rates. For instance, what is the "R-squared" value of the data with
> respect to the operational dates of the utilities? looking at the
> statistics provided it is difficult for me to determine what percentage of
> the population effects can be fully explained by plant operation. Also, to
> what degree is this mortality affected by other unmeasured phenomenon? Has
> there been any pesticide use studies done in this area? Have the
> meteorological conditions been incorporated and do those conditions
> support the hypothesis? Was stress related to living next to operational
> nuclear power plants been factored out or even studied?. Only one
> condition out of many known to cause similar results was studied for this
> case. And oh-by-the-way, just what was the hypothesis? 
> Here we go again, EMF part 2, just file this under suedo-science...
> 
Patrick Donahue
donahue.p@nypa.gov
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