Re: Rocketdyne Worker Health Study

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

March 13, 2002

Davis, CA



Boeing assembled a review team who prepared a carefully worded review

discretely pointing out some of the weaknesses in the UCLA study. The

investigators were mislead by their public advisory team. The chief

external public advisor, Daniel Hirsch, is a career anti-nuclear activist

in California. Most of the reported observed "effects" were associated with

just 2 cases of lung cancer, but no attempt was made to learn whether those

two persons were cigarette smokers. You can guess that they were. No

overall control was made for smoking, although a "side study" supposedly

showed that the groups involved in the analysis were probably similar with

respect to smoking. However, the averaging effect of the groups is not

meaningful in this case because the whole study depended on only about six

cases of different types of cancer.



I can send you a copy of the color brochure that Boeing made of the peer

review report if you need it.



Otto



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Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP

Center for Health & the Environment

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University of California, Davis, CA 95616

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