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Re: RE: Dr. Durakovic at Port Hope
Thank you for your excellent summary, Monica.
I am not allowed to say why the U.S. Army required Dr. Durakovic to leave active duty (one reason is that what I know I know from hearsay, not directly). I will point out the Army generally is desperate to recruit physicians and retain them. Draw your own conclusions.
Bob C
>
> From: "Monica Oosting" <monica.oosting@zircatec.ca>
> Date: 2004/12/16 Thu PM 01:46:26 EST
> To: <bobcherry@cox.net>, <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Subject: RE: Dr. Durakovic at Port Hope
>
> Just wanted to add my two cents!
>
> I attended the presentation referred to in the newspaper article (which is
> circulated within the county) and I took a few notes. There were
> approximately 60-70 people in attendance. Dr. Durakovic was introduced by
> one of the town's councillor's who is also the leader of a group called FARE
> (Families Against Radioactive Exposure) and by the leader of another anti
> group PHCHCC (Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee) He was
> introduced as an expert on radiation who has written a book on the subject.
>
> He began by stating the environment is poisoned to the point of no return
> with an unsuspecting population. He specifically named a power plant in
> Kentucky (with the accent it sounded like Paduca). He then went on to say
> he speaks in the name of truth and science and he must speak the truth and
> be objective of the facts of contamination in Port Hope. He went into
> detail about the half life of uranium (depleted, natural and enriched) such
> as it has a half life of 4.5 billion years and after 10 half lives it will
> be considered stable, which will be 45 billion years and that the universe
> will not be around that long. His next sentence was something to do with
> the police coming to his house with helicoptors and dogs looking for a dirty
> bomb because he said anyone could make one. He described the science of
> alpha, beta and gamma radiation, pretty accurately but then went on to say
> that he has seen children with two heads in Russia with similar
> contamination that is in Port Hope. However, these facilities were isolated
> from population and not located in towns etc. He says the truth is being
> kept from Port Hope residents and that he is not an advocate he is a
> scientist and a physicist who only speaks the truth. Later in the hour long
> presentation he went through the History of Radiation Accidents by first
> quoting revelations from the bible. He talked about Radium dial painters,
> Chalk River accident in 1952, Kyshtym explosion in 1957, Secret city of
> Chelyabinsk where malformations in children is rampant, and Chernobyl where
> there is a high incidence of leukemia in children. (his words not mine)
>
> He talked about the environmental deposit of 180 000 metric tons of mill
> tailings for one reactor each year, and that the drums are leaking and
> children are being contaminated by low level radioactivity. Canada would be
> brought to its knees financially if the country tried to clean up the
> contamination.
>
> He spoke about radiation effects on stem cells stating that brain cells are
> not affected but stem cells exposed may generate leukemia. He then quoted
> studies linking Uranium to mountain sickness, Uranium miners in Ontario
> (International Journal of Medicine 1993) and lung cancer, systemic sclerosis
> (sp??) in German Uranium miners in 1997, depleted uranium at a fuel
> processing facility in Ohio with elevated lung cancer 1998 ( a 35 year
> study).
>
> He continued quoting other studies that say that Uranium causes lung cancer,
> tubular injury in the kidney, nephritis, bone cancer, etc, He even said
> that people exposed to Uranium are more susceptible to colds and flus.
>
> It wasn't until someone asked the question about how he would choose the
> individuals that he briefly described what the $1500 would pay for. His
> answer was he would do a triage on the people that are presented to him by
> the Community Health Group and he will select people who are most likely to
> have radiation sickness then do laboratory research and clinical
> methodology. The selection will be based on people who have a history of
> radiation contamination with associated symptoms. The laboratory work will
> consist of chromosomal and genetic analysis, etc for people who of interest
> to him.
>
> One of his closing remarks was if he finds their is contamination in Port
> Hope every ounce of effort will be made to stop his work. I was not quite
> sure what or who he meant by that.
>
> I was not impressed with his presentation skills, he jumped all over, was
> unclear, lost his train of thought a few times and was repetitive about only
> speaking the truth. He did say he had a headache at one of the points that
> he lost his train of thought. I left thinking he had wasted everyone's
> time. I was hoping for him to go through what he would be analyzing for,
> the methodoly, how accurate, how defendable his research is, if he has
> performed the same in other areas, had he published any of his research in a
> peer reviewed journal etc. None of that just more propaganda throwing in a
> few slides of actual science.
>
> I left after he presented so I missed Tedd Weyman's talk so I cannot comment
> on what he said.
>
> Anyway just some feedback for people who wish to read it, sorry it is so
> longwinded I just wanted to give some information on what Dr. Durakovic
> covered.
>
> Monica
>
> Monica Oosting
> Health Physics Department
> Zircatec Precision Industries
> Port Hope, Ontario
> monica.oosting@zircatec.ca
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of bobcherry@cox.net
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:47 AM
> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Dr. Durakovic at Port Hope
>
>
> Here is a link to the news story:
>
> http://www.durhamregion.com/dr/nn/news/story/2424134p-2806312c.html
>
> It appears to me to be a biased article in a mainstream newspaper. Here is
> the lead paragraph:
>
> "Inhalation of radioactive isotopes is extremely dangerous to human health,
> said the director of an independent, non-profit organization that provides
> objective, expert scientific and medical research into the effects of
> uranium exposure."
>
> I wonder if the reporter did a fact check on the "objective, expert
> scientific and medical research" that Dr. Durakovic has performed.
>
> Here are some self-serving self-descriptions of Dr. Durakovic quoted in the
> article:
>
> ==============
> Port Hope is not alone when it comes to political resistance of keeping the
> truth of the dangers of uranium exposure away from the people, said Dr.
> Durakovic. It happens all around the world... in Russia, in the United
> States, in China, in Germany, and in Africa, he noted.
>
> "In the name of truth, in the name of science, I am obligated as a medical
> doctor to provide for public health regardless of political consequences,"
> he says. "I'm not an activist, just a scientist and medical doctor and I'm
> here to tell you the truth."
> =============
>
> I guess that if he is correct then the overwhelming majority of scientists
> are liars and conspirators. Only he brings "truth" to the people.
>
> Have any of us ever felt it necessary to describe ourselves the way Dr.
> Durakovic describes himself? "He doth protest too much!"
>
> I think that it would be tragic if any Port Hope resident forks over $1500
> per test to Dr. Durakovic's pet German laboratory for bioassay studies that
> are totally unnecessary.
>
> Bob C
>
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