Re: RADSAFE digest 3077

[Holloway3@aol.com]

Ed Slavin writes:

<< Our country owes the nuclear weapons workers and Company Town residents in 
 places like Oak Ridge, Paducah, Piketon, Rocky Flats, Hanford, Los Alamos, 
 etc. a debt of gratitude.  Instead they have been lied to and kicked in the 
 teeth.   >>

I disagree totally.  Some careful studies in the past have shown that workers 
in the nuclear weapons complex are healthier than the general population.  
Anecdotal information about ill health should be taken with a grain of salt, 
especially when there is a financial benefit to be gained by claiming ill 
health. Ed, can you point to any scientific study that shows the effects that 
you have been claiming?  Testimony is not necessarily convincing if the 
person testifying does not have sufficient knowledge or judgment to give an 
informed opinion.  Talk is cheap. What is needed is evidence interpreted by 
expert opinion.  
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