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RE: Potassium Iodide Symposium -Thyroid Radiation Risk [& Nasal Radium Irradiation}
Stewart,
I am not aware of all the facts, but why would I assume that you are
unbiased in this issue? Could you be using "agenda science" in this issue?
I am not saying you are wrong, but why should I believe you over the NCI?
Could you cite some information.
-- John
John P. Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: jenday1@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart Farber [mailto:farbersa@optonline.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:23 PM
To: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); bsmith@thyroid.org
Cc: senator@lieberman.senate.gov; lspohn@abqtrib.com;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Potassium Iodide Symposium -Thyroid Radiation Risk [& Nasal
Radium Irradiation}
John:
I am well aware of the posting you cite from the NCI supposedly offering an
impartial summary of present knowledge about NRI health effects.
Unfortunately, the NCI summary posting is little more than what I'd
characterize as agenda science in action in that it relies on partial, and
in many cases inaccurate, consideration of the research studies cited by
the NCI. In a number of cases the NCI stresses reliance only on study
abstracts which are word-engineered, incomplete vs. acutal study results,
and sometimes completely deceitful. While the NRI health effect findings
from the Netherlands by Verduijn suggest lower cancer mortality risk
[although strong indications of elevated cancer incidence - See Verduijn,
1996] than the US studies, the Dutch treatment protocol delivered total
radiation doses about 3.5 times lower on average than that delivered to the
average NRI treated child in the US.
I'd strongly suggest you read the entire original published papers, or take
a look at the two relevent Ph.D. theses of NRI health impacts conducted at
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, as the treatment was delivered in
the US, which I referenced in my prior e-mail. This is too important an
issue to evaluate based on the NCI 's [or the CDC's] questionably based
statements to date which come up so short vs. the facts at hand.
. . .
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