Re: Scientist links cancer to nuclear power

[Chuck Cooper <cooperc@TELEPORT.COM>]

I know this kind of material is "newsworthy" because it plays to people

fears and notion that there is

some great conspiracy but the majority of scientific data does not

support Dr. Sternglass's conclusions.

Unfortunately most scientists don't have a significant financial gain to

make by publishing boring dry facts while Dr. Sternglass however sincere

he may be makes his living selling books and speaking.  Why don't you

propose a story: "Most radiation safety professionals feel that public

fear of radiation is overrated, scientific studies bear this out". Will

that fly with your editors?



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>Statement by the President and Past Presidents of the Health Physics

>Society with Regard to Presentation by Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass,

>July 14, 1971.

>

>---------

>

>Statement (Read by Dade W. Moeller immediately after Dr, Sternglass'

>presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society,

>held in New York, New York July 14, 1971)

>

>---------

>

>On the third such occasion since 1968, Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, at an

>annual meeting of the Health Physics Society, has presented a paper in

>which he associates an increase in infant mortality with low levels of

>radiation exposure.  The material contained in Dr. Sternglass' paper

>has also been presented publicly at other occasions in various parts

>of the country. His allegations made in several forms have in each

>instance been analyzed by scientists, physicians and biostatisticans

>in the Federal government, in individual states that have been involved



>in his reports, and by qualified scientists in other countries.

>

>Without exception, these agencies and scientists have concluded that

Dr.

>Sternglass' arguments are not substantiated by the data he presents.

The

>United States Public Health Service, the Environmental Protection

Agency,

>the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois have

issued

>formal reports in rebuttal of Dr. Sternglass' arguments.  We, the

President

>and Past Presidents of the Health Physics Society, do not agree with

the

>claim of Dr. Sternglass that he has shown that radiation exposure from

>nuclear power operations has resulted in an increase in infant

mortality.

>

>Signed by:

>

>H.L. Andrews, Univ. of Rochester

>W.D. Claus (Retired)

>F.P. Cowan, Brookhaven Nat. Labs.

>Merrill Eisenbud, New York Univ.

>W.T. Hamm, Jr., Univ. of Virginia

>John R. Horan, USAEC.

>Wright H. Langham, LASL

>J.S. Laughlin, Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital

>K.Z. Morgan, ORNL

>Claire C. Palmiter, USEPA

>C.M. Patterson, Savannah River Lab.

>Walter S. Snyder, ORNL

>J. Newell Stannard, Univ. of Rochester

>L.S. Taylor, NCRP

>

>

>

>The following is a list of the various agencies and organizations that

found no merit in the mortality >claims of Sternglass. This list was

prepared by Dr. Bernard Cohen.

>

>Official and Prestigious Refutations of Sternglass up to time he left

>Pittsburgh about 1980

>

>

>Pennsylvania Governor's Fact Finding Committee (1974)

>        --made up of 8 distinguished scientists (including K.Z. Morgan)



>Statement by all past presidents of Health Physics Society

>National Academy of Sciences BEIR Committee

>State officials (in public statements) in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West

> Virginia, Illinois, New York, and Michigan

>National Cancer Institute

>Environmental Protection Agency

>U.S. Public Health Service

>U.S. Bureau of Radiological Health

>American Academy of Pediatrics

>Am. Journal of Public Health Editorial

>NATURE editorial

>Statements by anti-nuclear scientists -- Tamplin, Stewart, Morgan

>

>Bernard L. Cohen

>Physics Dept.

>University of Pittsburgh

>Pittsburgh, PA 15260

>Tel: (412)624-9245

>Fax: (412)624-9163

>e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu

>



Chuck Cooper

Dir. EH&S

Portland State University

ccc@pp.pdx.edu



BTW, the RADSAFE .cc is a copy to approximately 3,000 professionals in

radiation safety around the

world. I'm not speaking for them, just sticking my neck out in public.









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