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www fallout (radiation, AIDS etc)



>The connection between AIDS and ionizing radiation is so far-fetched >I 
can't believe it

Radsafers:  I also have some difficulty with these types of 
correlations... With the risk of being both off-topic and boring you - I 
made a simple search for radiation, AIDS etc (www fallout - each 
character is like a "Bq") - there is no reason to repeat all strange 
"information" out there but I give you a few glimpses below through 
copy-pasted paragraphs.

You may want to add the last three links to your "favorites" (by backing 
in the URL you'll find more illuminating interviews...). The bottom line 
is, as so often, correlation vs. causality. And it is definitely not 
funny - we have had newspaper articles on this level of entertainment - 
covering millions of potential readers (our population is about 8.5 
million).

bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com
Stockholm, Sweden
Any opinions expressed above are those of mine and may not
necessarily coincide with those of others.

PS. Comment to the tick bearing deer on Long Island: People are in close 
contact with the deer there feeding them anything from marshmellows and 
carrots to pizzas. Great opportunities for various small living 
creatures to be transferred from one mammalian species to the next. 
Millstone also seems sort of far-fetched...
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"Gould does not account for all the relevant data, does not address 
other possible explanations, and does not deal with whether other 
analyses support his conclusions. Similarly, he notes that there were 
more AIDS-related deaths in May 1986 than in May 1985 and ascribes this 
increase to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant; he does not 
discuss whether the increase might have been due to a difference in the 
number of diagnosed AIDS cases."

This paragraph comes from:
http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0901/goodscience.html
(analysis of "claim-makers" - CMs - application of the scientific 
method)
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"The everyday releases of low-level radioactivity by nuclear power 
plants has been found to cause several kinds of health damage including 
premature births, congenital defects, infant mortality, mental 
retardation, heart ailments, arthritis, diabetes, allergies, asthma, 
cancer, genetic damage and chronic fatigue syndrome. It has been linked 
to previously unknown infectious diseases, and the resurgence of old 
ones by damaging the developing white blood cells originating in the 
bone marrow and thus weakening the immune system. 
Dr. Sternglass conjectures what could happen: "With countless thousands 
of persons having a weaker and weaker immune system as the result of 
increasing radioactive contamination of the air and food chain, an AIDS 
mutation-like disease could become a new Black Plague. It's not 
inconceivable that entire nations could be decimated." 
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Of particular interest is Lyme Disease which first appeared in 1975 near 
the Millstone and Haddam Neck nuclear power plants in Connecticut. Dr. 
Jay Gould in Deadly Deceit (1990, Four Walls Eight Windows) describes: 
"In 1975 there were 59 cases of Lyme Disease recorded; in 1985 the 
number increased to 863, mainly in the two counties of Middlesex and New 
London, CT near the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant. Just as increases in 
cancer may be linked to the huge radiation release from Millstone in 
1975, so too may be the tick-borne Lyme Disease epidemic. The Lyme 
Disease is carried by a spirochete that had not been as harmful to 
humans prior to 1975. It is well known that radiation can cause 
mutations in bacteria. The enormous 1975 Millstone radiation release may 
have caused just such a mutation in the tick-borne spirochete." 
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RB (interview): "The relationship between radiation and AIDS is another 
one where we need more information. But it's very clear that radioactive 
material incorporated into bone and lymph tissue undermines your ability 
to fight infections. It's not at all coincidental, in my opinion, that 
the people now suffering the AIDS epidemic are also the people born 
between 1951 and 1963 when they did the above-ground weapon-testing in 
Nevada, and they did the testing in the Pacific in the atmosphere. So 
there probably is a connection to it but we don't know all the answers 
to it. Nor are we asking the questions. "
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``I spent 10 years in radiation data and emerged as the foremost expert 
in the field,'' says Bertell.

//From  http://www.ratical.org/radiation/RBanNun.html  //
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Other "references:"
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/HoLLR.html
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/inetSeries/overview.html


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