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Re: Dr.Gofman--I just wonder..
June 4, 2003
This thread began on May 31 when NiagaraNet (NN) made a posting about John
Gofman. Approximately 85% of NN's posting was about Gofman - his longevity
in speaking and writing about radioactivity and a brief biography of
Gofman's early years. NN also made the claim that Gofman had linked
radiation exposure to heart disease.
Despite more than one request, NN has been unable to give a citation to
Gofman's work proving or substantiating a link between rad exposure and
heart disease. Today NN says, "HOWEVER, I don't need the actual citation"
(NN's upper case) because he has "three (3) separate and diverse news
sources," including "a US Senator, a hospital president, a Mayo trained
cardiologist and the owner of GEICO Insurance." (I count four, but NN said
three.)
Okay, let's go with that, NN. What if I came up with a US Senator who
said Hillary Clinton was talking nonsense and that there was nothing to
worry about in Niagara Falls? Suppose I came up with a hospital president,
a cardiologist, and an insurance company owner who said the same thing -
that there is nothing to worry about? What would you say to that?
For a short time, let's go back to heart disease and rad exposure.
According to an article in "Nuclear News" (Anonymous 2002), patients "who
received gamma radiation in their arteries during angioplasty had a reduced
risk of artery renarrowing for up to five years compared to those who
received only angioplasty". According to the study's senior author, he and
his colleagues "found no evidence of serious adverse effects caused by the
treatment." Patients in the study received doses of between 800 and 3000
rads (centigray). The gamma was from an iridium-192 source.
I'll grant you this is not about heart disease as such, but I think we can
draw some plausible conclusions from the study, to wit: exposure to
radioactivity does not cause heart disease. My guess is that these
patients were exposed to a lot more radioactivity than were the residents
of Niagara Falls, who have supposedly been exposed to radioactivity from
BURIED uranium. (Not gamma in their arteries, BURIED uranium.)
NN invited me to contact "Dr. Michael E. Merhige, a Mayo Clinic-trained
cardiologist who recently joined the staff at Niagara Falls Memorial." I
would rather have a citation to his studies proving what you imply - that
rad exposure causes heart disease. And if Gofman actually has something
why don't you trot it out for us? You could try contacting the Tooth Fairy
Project. They seem to know a lot about Gofman's work.
Finally, you wrote today that your "original posting was directed to an
audience that I THOUGHT would participate in some form of discourse as to
the possibility of cause(s), exposures, materials used in the Niagara area,
a little history, interest and or concern for human health and so forth.
What is it that is done over there at RADSAFE anyway?" (NN's upper case)
Your "original posting" was largely a paean to John Gofman but since that
day you have been back-pedaling from Gofman as fast as you can. We at
RADSAFE have a lot of "concern for human health". Some participants have
made this concern their life work - in nuclear medicine - which has saved
far more lives than have been taken by anything nuclear, including "THE
BOMB."
Another thing we do at RADSAFE is expose charlatans. By the way, have you
read any of the material I cited a few days ago showing that Gofman's work
is junk?
Steven Dapra
sjd@swcp.com
REFERENCE
Anonymous Artery renarrowing prevented by radiation. Nuclear News.
45(8):63-64; July, 2002.
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