Re: New Scientist Reports on DU and Iraq

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/17/03 10:35:12 AM Mountain Daylight Time, fd003f0606@blueyonder.co.uk writes:


> ). People's fears that DU leaves a deadly legacy must be
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> addressed, says UNEP. Some scientists go further. Evidence is emerging that
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> DU affects our bodies in ways we do not fully understand, they say, and the
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> legacy could be real.
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> DU is both radioactive and toxic. Past studies of DU in the environment have
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> concluded that neither of these effects poses a significant risk. But some
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> researchers are beginning to suspect that in combination, the two effects
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> could do significant harm. Nobody has taken a hard look at the combined
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> effect of both, says Alexandra Miller, a radiobiologist with the Armed
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> Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. "The bottom
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> line is it might contribute to the risk."



Oh for heaven's sake!  That's carrying synergy beyond any reasonable limit./  Maybe the magazine should be re-titled "new pseudo-scientist."


Ruth


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