cancer in Japan

["Wim Passchier" <wfpas@worldaccess.nl>]

My reaction to the message:

> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 07:32:56 -0700
From: "H.Wade Patterson" <hwade@triax.com>
Subject: cancer incidence in Japan
(...)
If one compares Hiroshima- Nagasaki to All Japan, ones finds fewer
cancer deaths in Hiroshima-Nagasaki than in All Japan.
(...)

is: "so what?"

It really does not help to put the risk of exposure to low level radiation
into perspective, going around and asking questions like this.

Wim Passchier
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