Re: Did A-Bomb exposure lead to better

[awoods@ucla.edu (anthony woods)]

>Dear Jim:
>      Please let us see the data.  Survivor populations do tend in 
>many circumstances to have long lives, as classically shown by the black 
>population of the US which in early life have high rates of death from 
>trauma, infant mortality, infectious disease, maternal mortality and 
>cancer compared to whites.  Once they reach advanced age, the survivors 
>are pretty hardy.  But to tell the public that A-Bomb survivors are now 
>living longer than the controls despite about 400 radiation induced cancers, 
>based on suvivors who are 80 or over is not acceptable.  I am neither a 
>governmental spokesman nor am I a governmental apologist.  I have no 
>grants to protect, other than the grant of common sense and experience.
>                             John Goldsmith, M.D. 
>

Please dont just use blacks as an example, its has been proven that any
group of people go through the same experiences.>
Anthony Woods
Ucla Radiation Safety
Eh & S tech