Re: RADSAFE digest 3143

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Norm stated the following:

> They want 1000s of teeth and teeth from all over the country.  As of now, teeth
> collected are mostly from nuclear counties, as I suggested in a previous post.
> Thats mainly do to where the activists and concerned citizens are. I would
> venture a guess that as they collect enough teeth from nuclear areas and get them
> analyzed, and that will take awhile, then they will look for "non-nuclear",
> control teeth. -

All that the project has accomplished is to find the typical uptake 
of Sr-90 in infant teeth (if the analysis was done correctly) based 
on what wa submitted to them. What they haven't shown is 
whether or not these levels are the same for infant teeth in areas 
where there are no nuclear facilities. That is why the statistics are 
so poor, and don't follow any recognized sampling methodology.

An analogy is for a poll to be taken that wants to prove that the US 
Govt. acted unfairly and like thugs in the Elian Gonzalez raid which 
took him from a home in Little Havana (an area I know all too well). 
To prove this they ask for support. Well, all the support comes from 
the Little Havana area, and there we have statistics that show 98% 
of the population believes that the govt. acted horrendously. What 
would you expect to come out of a poll that is driven by a select 
group, a small segment of the population. In the case of the Tooth 
Fairy Project, I wouldn't expect to find individuals in NON-nuclear 
areas around the country to send in their infant's teeth. They don't 
have the incentive.

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