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You'll note that a "ten-fold increase in the incidence of leukaemia in children" is quite something different than "ten-fold increase of cancer rates".  As I said before: we find an increase in a single rare form of cancer while Gaianne is hinting at an increase in all forms of cancers, though never spelling it out.  Which is intellectually dishonest.

(On a side note: I cannot confuse "cancer rate" with anything, because that term is basically undefined and left to interpretation by individuals.  It is only used by anti-nuke-kooks when applying statistical trickery.)

by ustenzel on Sun Aug 20th, 2006 at 02:52:09 PM EST
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You'll note that a "ten-fold increase in the incidence of leukaemia in children" is quite something different than "ten-fold increase of cancer rates"
How about ackowledging I have noted that?
"standard dose/risk models underestimate the expected number of additional child leukemia cases by a factor of up to 10". A far cry from "cancer rates increased by a factor of 10".


Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Aug 20th, 2006 at 02:57:29 PM EST
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Yeah, you have.  I must have had some sort of tunnel vision and only saw the quotation from the article.
by ustenzel on Mon Aug 21st, 2006 at 07:54:00 AM EST
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