Re: more on Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate

["Craig A. Little" <cpl@ornl.gov>]

Anyone care to make an editorial response to the Mangano article?

Craig Little


At 02:25 PM 4/26/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks to Mr. Baker for the URL.
>
>I just checked Colorado Vital Statistics for infant mortality rates from 
>1989 to 1998 for Larimer & Weld Counties, Colorado.  Mr Mangano claims 
>these are downwind of the (ex)Fort St. Vrain reactor.  Maybe, maybe 
>not.  Anyway, infant mortality rates did in fact decline in that 
>period.  Guess what?  They did in the rest of the State too.  Hooray for 
>modern medicine and neonatology.
>
>I recommend checking infant mortality rates (and other endpoints if you 
>can find them) for "downwind" counties around reactors that did not close 
>in the period in question.  If the rates declined in the same manner, you 
>can pretty much discount reactors as having anything to do with the effect.
>
>Regards,
>Tony Harrison
>Colo. Dept. of Public Health & Environment
>tony.harrison@state.co.us
>(303)692-3046
>
>
> >>> "Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov> 04/26/00 11:20AM >>>
>
>
>For those of you interested in reading Mangano's article:
>
>http://www.stockton-press.co.uk/eet/v2n1/pdf/7600024a.pdf
>
>
>Mike
>
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