Re: Tooth Fairy Project - NY Times - some responses

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

At 08:11 PM 5/1/02 -0400, Norman Cohen wrote:

>Hi Radsafers,

>

>   I thought that Mangano was very careful to claim nothing more than a

request for

>additional studies. My personal experience with Joe Mangano is that he is

more

>circumspect and cautious in his statements than Alec Baldwin, or

Sternglass or

>Gould.

>

>  Mangano has done two statistical studies for Salem County (NJ), and both

show that

>when the reactors were shut down for repair from 1995-1998, that infant

mortality,

>low birthwieght in infants, and immune system connected diseases all went

down. When

>the reactors went back on line, these catagories went up.

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May 1, 2002

Davis, CA



Mangano uses the Sternglass and Gould method of sifting through data until

he finds what he likes. His random observations are unrelated to any real

cause-effect relationships, but are found by pure chance. He could just as

easily develop such relationships in correlation to rainfall levels or

phases of the moon. No real scientist would take his work seriously. 



Out of 100 nuclear power plants in the U.S., 50 go up and 50 go down with

respect to any chosen observation. For the 50 that go down on the first

observation, 25 go up on the second. Big deal! 



Otto



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