Re: Stewart Article

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

	What does it mean to say that children and old people were
undr-represented? Data are given as a function of age at the time of the
bomb, so each age group is effectively a separate study. It doesn't matter
what number of people there were in each age group.

Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, R. William Field wrote:

> Radsafers,
> 
> Have you seen this article?
> 
> Flawed radiation data puts old, kids at risk?
> 
> Children and old people may be exposed to damaging levels of
> radiation from nuclear plants because of flawed data used to set
> safety limits, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday. A study by
> epidemiologist Alice Stewart showed the very young and the elderly
> were more sensitive to radiation damage than experts realized.
> Regulatory agencies estimate risks of exposure to radiation by using
> rates comparing cancer among people living in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
> in 1950, five years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on them, and
> people from other Japanese cities. Stewart said children and old
> people were under-represented among the survivors used in the data.
> 
> 
> See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553083802-62b
> 
> 
> Bill-field@uiowa.edu
>