Re: Radioactive baby teeth flag cancer rate

[Norman & Karen Cohen <norco@bellatlantic.net>]

Sandy,

--------Again, I'm not in the "inner circle" of RPHP, so I pass on what they tell me.
Accuse me of being stubborn, unscientific, etc, but not subterfuge. ------------

Sandy Perle wrote:

> 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.
> ---------  well, loks like a prelim report is coming out. ------------
> 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.
>

------------  I would hope that any report they make is clearly preliminary and
general. To release numbers and call them definitive would be wrong. ---------------

>
> 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.
> ---------  That's still my understanding -----------

norm


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