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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Two Updates from Hiroshimasyndrome.com

Latest Chernobyl Cancer Study Contains Numerous Problems (December 14)
A November 8 report claiming increased leukemia in Chernobyl clean-up workers is fraught with problems. Several have been exposed by a recent Ukrainian expert group. In addition, The Report’s listing of supportive references with respect to its claim of a CLL/LLR relationship being “not clear” is materially incorrect. TFurther,he Report fails to make a comparison between typical non-irradiated leukemia statistics and those gleaned from Chernobyl worker records. It appears The Report looks at Chernobyl in isolation from all necessarily-related statistics: a critical omission that can only have been intentional.
A Phantom Conflict of Interest in Japan (December 10)
The international Press reports that a “potential conflict of interest” was “buried” in last year’s 600-page congressional investigation into the Fukushima accident. The ICRP members in Japan are taking umbrage with the allegation made by Dr. Hisako Sukiyama, one of the members of the Diet's Fukushima Accident Investigative Committee. What’s more important – a potentiality based on thin evidence or the actual professional record of those involved?

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