[ RadSafe ] markey-connection between infant mortality and nukes

[Patricia Milligan]

Norm,
  can you please help me to understand how either you or Mr. Mangano defines "monkey with the numbers"?   Cherry picking your data so it fits, only considering data from certain years, moving counties so they fit the "downwind" model, not including other data because "it doesn't fit the pattern" (- See April 27, 2000 Sacramento Bee article on Mr. Mangano,)  not establishing controls, not examining any other potential and well defined impacts on the data, including communities that are "technically not downwind" because they give better numbers.. (technically not downwind?? hello!!???)  this all seems to me to be "monkeying with the numbers".  But, I may have missed those techniques in my many undergraduate and graduate statistics and epidemiology courses  and I can't find reference to those techniques in any of my biostatistics texts so.. please help me to understand  how you define "monkey with the numbers..".
  Thank you,
     Patricia A. Milligan, CHP
    US NRC
    301-415-2223
 
>>> "Norm Cohen" <ncohen12 at comcast.net> 02/23/05 06:11PM >>>
Hi Richard,

I post the TFP information to Radsafe because of its interest to  
Radsafers. I agree that there
is a problem with the lack of documented leaks and the small amounts of  
sr90 reported in effluent reports by the nuke plants. On the other hand,  
having worked with and corresponded with Mangano, I'm convinced that he  
doesn't monkey with the numbers either. So I'm keeping a cautious
open mind on all this.

Its a shame that some TFP folks don't join radsafe and defend their  
theories directly. I don't think its my position to be the intermediary.

Norm



On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:25:46 -0500, Richard L. Hess  
<lists at richardhess.com> wrote:

> Norm, it's good to report this, but one of the things that continues to  
> surprise me is that there are few to no documented leaks from these  
> nuclear plants and yet mere proximity seems to cause havoc.
>
> What is the mechanism for this? I'm trying to  understand. How do these  
> nuke plants cause increased infant mortality? Is the radiation from the  
> nuclear plants worse than the natural background radiation? Is the  
> radiation near the plants any higher than anywhere else?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Richard
>
> At 01:36 PM 2/23/2005, Norm Cohen wrote:
>> NEWS FROM ED MARKEY
>> United States Congress                  Massachusetts Seventh District
>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                            
>> CONTACT:        Mark Bayer
>> February 18,  
>> 2005                                                                
>> Michal Freedhoff
>> (202) 225-2836
>>
>> NEW STUDY SUGGESTS SPIKE IN INFANT MORTALITY ASSOCIATED WITH RADIATION
>> FROM NUKE PLANTS
>>  Markey Questions NRC on Health Risks of Living Near Nuclear Reactors
>>
>> Washington, DC:  Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House
>> Energy and Commerce Committee, the panel which oversees nuclear power
>> regulation, today released a letter he sent to the Nuclear Regulatory
>> Commission (NRC) regarding health risks for communities who live close  
>> to
>> nuclear reactors.  A new study released today by Dr. Ernest Sternglass  
>> of
>> the University of Pittsburgh suggests that infant mortality increased
>> significantly in 2002,  after operating capacity at 104 nuclear power
>> stations reached its highest levels.
>
>
>
>



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