[ RadSafe ] Healthy Worker Effect - Test Time? / Taiwan study
Bjorn Cedervall
bcradsafers at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 18 07:21:24 CET 2005
Sometimes a strong correlation is not causal. I suggest that we take a
cautious approach (Taiwan study) regarding conclusions. Has any age profiles
been analyzed in relation to the article?
My personal reflection only,
Bjorn Cedervall bcradsafers at hotmail.com
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>The Taiwan "Study" (J Am Phys & Surg 9:1, pp6-11) is at least as impressive
>as was John Snow's observation of more disease on one side of a London
>street than the other having a different water supply.This at least calls
>for a test, "taking off the pump handle", exposing another population to
>0.4 Sv over 10 years, to reproduce very low cancer and fetal abnormality
>rates..
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