TFP and correlations

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Just saw the following:

http://www.radiation.org/nuclink2_1.html

See the graph indicating 19 million excess deaths over the past decades.



As such a large fraction of the U.S. population live in cities I wonder how 

the

TFP people take into account air pollution (air planes, cars, coal - oops 

sorry

the latter is about non nuclear radioactivity), infections, asthma, and 

everything

that roaches, rats or waste dumps (playing grounds for children) etc may 

carry.

Or look at cities like New Orleans with all the killings etc - many children 

lose

a father because of violence. What may does that cause indirectly?



What fraction of those people have a medical insurance? Modern medicine and

what it may bring in terms of benefits must eventually approach its limits 

and

therefore death rates must eventually reach a bottom. What about

population changes over time? When you get down to relatively low death

rates extra deaths due to particular causes (like asthma or sickle cell

anemia) may distort the statistics. Just how do they sort up the causes?

(choking deaths from large rad particles?)



It looks like the research is fishing expeditions with statistics programs.

Where is the analysis of the alternative complex explanations?



My personal reflections only,



Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com



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