AW: [ RadSafe ] BBC Reports "Nuclear workers' cancer risk rise

[Franz Schönhofer]

Is there still anyody at RADSAFE who takes reports from newspapers,
TV-stations or other massmedia serious? 

If you do, blame yourself.

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> Auftrag von Bernard Cohen
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2005 15:50
> An: Fred Dawson
> Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] BBC Reports "Nuclear workers' cancer risk rise
> 
> 
> > Just under 200 died from leukaemias, and 6,519 from other cancers.
> > The researchers say, that from their evidence, 1 to 2% of deaths from
> > cancer among workers in this study may be attributable to radiation.
> 
>        ---The statistical uncertainty (one standard deviation) is the
> square root of 6519 which is 81, or  1.2% of the result. So this
> evidence is essentially meaningless
> 
> >
> >
> 
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