Re: Fossil fuel and genetic defects

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET>]

Uh, oh. Sounds fatal!? :-)



Maybe should have titled the msg: "Fossil fuel and epi defects!?"



Thanks, Otto



> From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>



> At 01:28 AM 12/18/01 -0500, Muckerheide wrote:

>> FYI, from Gene Cramer.

>> 

>> Regards, Jim

>> ===========

>> 

>> Orange County REGISTER December 17, 2001

>> UCLA research links air pollution and birth defects

>> LOS ANGELES -- For years, scientists have known of a correlation between air

>> quality and infant illnesses. Now, for the first time, a Southern California

>> study links air pollution and birth defects.

>> 

>> The University of California, Los Angeles, study shows that the harmful

>> effects of dirty air can extend even into the womb, the Los Angeles Times

>> said Sunday. 

>> 

>> "Smog can harm the health of babies," said Beate Ritz, an epidemiologist at

>> UCLA's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health who conducted the

>> study. 

> **************************************************************

> December 18, 2001

> 

> This is the same Beate Ritz, M.D. Ph.D., who, as a graduate student, was

> study coordinator of the atrocious "Rocketdyne Study" in 1997 that claimed

> to show that tiny amounts of radiation exposure caused cancer in workers.

> That flawed study involved selective organization of weak data and dozens

> of statistical tests conducted as a fishing expedition in a search for

> statistically significant findings. Outlandish claims were made based

> primarily on four cancer cases among 875 deaths that were in the study.

> 

> I wonder if the same statistical methodology was used in this air pollution

> study.

> 

> Otto

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