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RE: another paper on DU
Norm,
Did you read this prior to posting? (I think it is important to look at
what you post.) It appears to me to be a collection of references that deal
with DU, international law and health effect claims. I must say that I
admire the author's ability to collect 116 references. However, because it
is such a mish-mosh of arguements that are more anti-warfare, the fact that
no harmful effects have been seen is lost. It that regard, there is no new
information here.
A telling sentence is "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence of
those effects, however, but merely a sign of the lack of scientifically
rigorous investigations of the health of soldiers and civilians exposed to
depleted uranium." From what I get is that there has not been enough
research done on US soldiers. Of course, the conclusions of studies done by
other countries and scientific groups are not while mentioned. I think one
item in the conclusion says it all:
"At this point in time there is a lack of hard evidence to determine
conclusively whether depleted uranium causes health and environmental
effects sufficient to violate rules of international humanitarian law. The
absence of scientifically rigorous investigations of the effects of depleted
uranium is a lacuna so large and readily apparent that it demands redress if
the debate over depleted uranium's effects is ever to be settled."
I looked at the credentials of the author. "Dan Fahey has investigated
depleted uranium munitions since 1994, currently independently and
previously on behalf of Swords to Plowshares Veterans' Rights Organization,
the National Gulf War Resource Center, and the Military Toxics Project. He
is currently a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University in the United States."
They all sound like advocacy groups, except for Tufts University. I bet he
is a lawyer. I think the list of participants at this meeting is also very
telling.
-- John
John P. Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
e-mail: jenday1@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Cohen [mailto:ncohen12@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:03 PM
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Subject: another paper on DU
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