Re: Testimony of Steve Wing to US House of Representatives

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 03:07 PM 7/28/00 -0500, Jerry Cohen:
>
>Anyway, didn't RERF use populations from
>other areas of Japan (not affected by the bombs) as controls?
>
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August 9, 2000
Davis, CA

NO!

There is NO "outside" control group in the current RERF analyses of the
atomic bomb survivors. The survivors with low doses are the de facto controls.

Otto
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