<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alison Katz</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:katz.alison@gmail.com">katz.alison@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New York Academy of Sciences challenges WHO’s estimates of mortality and morbidity on Chernobyl</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">WHO estimates 50 deaths already and potentially, 4000 as a final total. Independent researchers from all over the world, estimate 985,000 by 2004. </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Yablokov, A., Nesterenko, V. and Nesterenko, A.<i> </i>Chernobyl: consequences of the catastrophe for people and the environment. <i>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences</i>, Vol. 1181, Wiley Blackwell, February, 2010. (330 pages, 800 references)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">An article (see abstract below) on the implications of this new book is available from <a href="mailto:katz.alison@gmail.com%20" target="_blank">katz.alison@gmail.com </a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="color:#231F20"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="color:#231F20">Consequences of Nuclear Disasters</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:#231F20"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:#231F20">HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF CHERNOBYL:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:#231F20">THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PUBLISHES</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:#231F20">AN ANTIDOTE TO THE NUCLEAR</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:#231F20">ESTABLISHMENT’S PSEUDO-SCIENCE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">Alison Rosamund Katz</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">In February 2010, the New York Academy of Sciences published the most</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">complete and up-to-date collection of evidence, from independent, scientific</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">sources all over the world, on the health and environmental consequences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">of the Chernobyl accident. For 24 years, through a high-level, internationally</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">coordinated cover-up of the world’s most serious industrial accident, the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">nuclear lobby has deprived the world of a unique and critically important</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">source of scientific information. The International Atomic Energy Agency</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">(IAEA), mouthpiece of the nuclear establishment, has coordinated the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">cover-up through the dissemination and imposition of crude pseudo-science.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">Regrettably, the World Health Organization, a U.N. agency on which the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">world’s people rely for guidance, is subordinate to the IAEA in matters of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">radiation and health, has participated in the cover-up, and stands accused of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">non-assistance to populations in danger. The new book on Chernobyl makes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">available huge amounts of evidence from independent studies undertaken in</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">the affected countries, unique and valuable data that have been ignored by</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">the international health establishment. This comprehensive account of the full</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">dimensions of the catastrophe reveals the shameful inadequacy of current</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">international assistance to the affected populations. It also demonstrates,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20">once more, that future energy options cannot include nuclear power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:#231F20"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#231F20"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#231F20">International Journal of Health Services, Volume 40, Number 4, Pages 679–698, 2010</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#231F20">© 2010, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#231F20">doi: 10.2190/HS.40.4.g</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">
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