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Re: Bethlehem Steel, Vitkis and comments
For what it is worth, this is part of what I call the
"buy-out" program. Hospitals do it all the time.
Rather than challenging a claim of injury, it is
cheaper to give the "injured" party a cash settlement.
One, you avoid going to court and the bad publicity
(the government getting bad publicity?). Two, you
look like a "good" guy because you have compassion and
settled with the "injured" party.
--- RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:
> I wasn't going to respond, but the bleeding heart
> rhetoric about "compassion" got to me.
>
> So here is a response that is NOT caring (I am not
> sure about dignified). NIOSH's dose reconstructions
> are conservative. The reconstructions consider all
> exposure cumulative, include chest x-rays and other
> diagnostic x-ray, correct for smoking only in the
> case of lung cancer, count basal and squamous cell
> skin cancers as being radiation exposure-induced
> (even though the relationship between these cancers
> and sunlight UV exposure is well understood), and so
> on. In other words, NIOSH goes to great lengths to
> show exposure.
>
> If exposure (to uranium oxide and metal) was in
> 1949-1952, with some residual exposure since then,
> how can that reliably be correlated to any disease,
> including most cancers, half a century after the
> exposure? And in people who if they were 18 in
> 1949, are now 73, and have been exposed to lots of
> carcinogens and various hazards in the intervening
> 55 years? How about the cohort who had equal or
> greater exposure and don't have any disease that can
> even by extension be correlated to radiation
> exposure?
>
> The demands for compensation look a lot like just
> demands for money.
>
>
> --
> Ruth F. Weiner
> ruthweiner@aol.com
> 505-856-5011
> (o)505-284-8406
>
>
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