Re: Journals use of Wing et al "study"

[Scott Schwahn <schwahn@jlab.org>]

> But Mr. Ith made an unqualified statement
> that TMI resulted in a rise of leukemia.

No, he didn't.  He wrote:  "In the U.S., leukemia rates climbed among people
exposed to the
  1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania."

Although he implied causation, he did not say that it _resulted_ in a rise.  The
statement might be perfectly true!  It would be most accurate if followed by "but
no statistically significant causation was determined."  It could be due to
statistical clustering or any other number of things not stated.  Look at it
again.

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Scott O. Schwahn, CHP
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
schwahn@jlab.org