Re: OLD Portsmouth Shipyard Study -History

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Hi all:

In the original Boston Globe 1976 "Spotlight Team" agenda science expose based 

entirely on the technical analysis of Dr. Najarian [who may be a decent physician 

but is/was a lousy epidemiologist] the "Radiation Workers [again based on 

recollections of next of kin] supposedly had a 10 fold higher risk of dying of 

leukemia [if memory serves me right] than those workers who were not in the Globe 

"Non-Radiation Worker" group.



The later study funded by NIOSH conducted by Matanoski [discussed widely on 

Radsafe] found the claims by Najarian to be unsubstantiated. There did appear to 

be a slight excess of leukemia, primarily associated with organic solvent use 

[including benzene] by shipyard workers.



Stewart Farber, MSPH

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6/17/03 3:52:40 PM, "Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com> wrote:



>At 01:39 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, Stewart Farber wrote:

>

>

>>I followed the story closely...Dr. Najarian was intimately involved in 

>>making extreme, unprofessional,  and ultimately totally unsubstantiated 

>>claims about the risk of radiation being far higher than anyone had ever 

>>predicted.

>

>Which puts him in the same class as his (former?) colleague Sternglass and 

>is someone quoted by Wasserman in his totally unbiased ( ;-) discussion of 

>the issues, "Killing Our Own."







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