Re: Wing: Descriptive Epidemiology ...

["Michael P. Grissom" <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Radsafers,

Just a local anecdotal report on this issue (which as 
Sandy noted in his recent post aired Monday, 
February 24, 1997).

The cancers near TMI (Wing) story was briefly reported 
on KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) with the News 
Anchor, Pete Wilson (no, not the Governor of California!) 
adding to the report on Wing's findings an interesting 
caveat:  You should be aware that the people issuing this 
report are also involved in a law-suit against the operators 
of TMI (more or less a quote, the transcript may be on the 
KRON web site).

I felt the short-shrift and the caveat given the report are once 
again indicators that the media (or at least some of it) are not 
necessarily ready to run amok on every radiation-related story 
and that the sources are getting (more apparently) skeptical 
scrutiny.

To that extent, some positive trends are flickering out there...

S.,

MikeG.

My opinion only.
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