Harry Pollard wrote: > In the WHO report on Chernobyl, Dr. Burton Bennett, chairman of > the Chernobyl Forum and an authority on radiation effects said:
> "By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health > impacts to the rest of the population . nor have we found widespread > contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to > human health." Yesterday, the Berlin daily TAZ published a pretty long article debunking this WHO report, titled "The U.N. lies", at http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/04/22/a0120.1/text Some points from the article: - The WHO report is based on a very incomplete and partial literature review. Many very important studies in Russian were left out. - The central basis for the estimated death toll is the 10 year old Cardis "expertise" that only considers cancer victims in Belorussia, Russia and Ukraine up to 1995. But it ignores that a third of the radiation exposure occurs after 1995, it ignores the long latency time of cancer and it ignores that many of the Chernobyl deaths are due to other illnesses (cardiovascular, depressions etc.) - a Minsk cardiology professor observed a 9-fold increased cardiovascular mortality among liquidators. Despite ignoring all that, Cardis predicted 9,000 deaths, but the IAEA reduced even that number to 4,000. - The WHO only considered 200,000 of the 6-800,000 liquidators in the 30km-zone. The exposure measurements are extremely incomplete. For 91% of the Belorussian liquidators, no measurements exist at all. The Ukraine assumes that 94% of all surviving liquidators are ill. The suicide rate is still high, probably 50,000 so far. - The Soviets did everything to downplay the effects and death toll. The U.N. is much too uncritical of this massive cover-up, with Russia still in its "security" council. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
