Re: Radioactive baby teeth flag cancer rate

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

Interesting timing. Norm .. Seems you were mislead, or, you were 
misleading all of us!

> "The data will be released at the meeting," said Dr. Janet
> Sherman, a speaker at this week's conference, which begins
> tomorrow. "But in general we are finding that strontium-90 levels in
> baby teeth of children born since 1990 are reaching the levels that
> were in existence during the above-ground bomb-testing years,
> which is very scary.
> 
> "Where's it coming from? Well, we're not doing above-ground
> testing of bombs, so there's only one place it could be coming
> from. And that is normally acting nuclear reactors.

Norm stated the following regarding why data was being provided to 
the scientific community:

May 1, 2000  I think they will publish their study when they are 
ready. Perhaps a preliminary report will come out, I don't know. Not 
part of the inner circle of RPHP.

May 1, 2000  And guys, for the lst time - the Tooth Fairy Project is 
IN PROCESS. They are not going to release numbers until the Project 
is finished and the report written. This seems darn reasonable and 
scientific to me.  

April 28  Second, my understanding of thi project is that they are 
not out to "prove" that nuke's cause cancer, but to use this study as 
a first step to get additional and farther reaching studies.



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