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Re: Newsarticle: Cold War's Human Costs Linger
See the following article on the military personnel at Crossroads (which I
think is closer to 43,000, but the data was limited to about 40,000). I
don't have the report here. I think somebody walked away with it. I would
expect that it would be easy to find on the NAS/NRC web site pubs.
An article, "No increase in radiation-related deaths seen in US atomic
veteransı " by Michael McCarthy in the Lancet, November 1996, reports on the
National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine [IOM] study of
approximately 40,000 US servicemen who participated in Operation Crossroads
nuclear bomb tests in 1946 compared with a control group, finding that
exposure to ionizing radiation did not cause increased mortality among
Crossroads participants. For the more complete Lancet report see:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-2/5/1/12513lu96.html
Again, this is the military (primarily Navy) contingent which had not been
included in the previous studies of Crossroads and other tests (which
exposed AEC and civilian participants to more radiation! :-) A friend who
invented the film and took the pictures of the exploding weapons for EG&G
had to go get the film after the shots. And he, like most, was limited to 5
rem in a test series! He witnessed more explosions close up than anybody
(including the "above the atmosphere" shots) and figured he didn't get much
more than 100 rem lifetime. For the others, see also:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-2/5/1/12512mc96.html
and
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-2/5/1/12511ya94.html
Uhh... Yes, I said "scam." Dozens of other studies come to the same
conclusions. It takes special cases of dishonesty to make out that people
are dying of such doses. And they, like Michaels and the DOE people who
made up the data to justify the cold war heroes scam, know it. Did
Richardson? or just a dope being led by the nose?
Jim
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> From: "dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
> Reply-To: "dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:43:16 -0400
> To: "Michael Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>, "Radsafe"
> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Subject: Re: Newsarticle: Cold War's Human Costs Linger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>
> To: "Radsafe" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 8:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Newsarticle: Cold War's Human Costs Linger
>
>
> A survey is not a statistic. It is raw data of unknown accuracy. The
> information presented below does not include any information that would
> allow it to be called a statistic.
>
>> According to the association's survey of 1,572 men
>> present for the 1946 Bikini Atoll detonations, 59 percent have died of
>> cancer, at an average age of 57.
>
> For example, there is no information on how the 1,572 men were selected from
> the more than 10,000 men who were involved. In addition, there is no dose
> information, no indication of time between exposure and cancer onset, type
> of cancer, no information on confounders (smoking was encouraged at the
> time), and no mention of a control group. The use of "average at death" is
> non-specific without the above information.
>
> The potential self-secection bias was noted earlier. Some of the men who
> were at the tests were inside ships below the waterline and would have
> received no radiation dose. Yet they would have been exposed to numerous
> other carcinogens, both during the testing and at other times during their
> time in the navy. For example, asbestos and fuel oil fumes.
>
> Sincerely,
> Don Kosloff dkosloff1@msn.com
> 2910 Main St. Perry OH 44081
>
>
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