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Moving right along... http://www.nyas.org/publications/annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-753f44b3bfc1 From the NYAS page (linked above) on "*Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment*".... "This collection of papers, originally published in Russian, was written by scientists who state that they have summarized the information about the health and environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster from several hundreds of papers previously published in Slavic language publications.* In no sense did Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences or the New York Academy of Sciences commission this work; nor by its publication does the Academy validate the claims made in the original Slavic language publications cited in the translated papers*. Importantly, the translated volume has not been formally peer‐reviewed by the New York Academy of Sciences or by anyone else." "Under the editorial practices of Annals at the time, some projects, such as the Chernobyl translation, were developed and accepted solely to fulfill the Academy’s broad mandate of providing an open forum for discussion of scientific questions, rather than to present original scientific studies or Academy positions. The content of these projects, conceived as one-off book projects, were not vetted by standard peer review." [emphasis added] Basically this is a refutation of their supposed "endorsement" of this nonsense that passes for 'science'. Additionally, they note the study is out of stock and *will not be republished*. There was a huge push back from actual oncologists and health physics specialists and the NYAS owned up to blowing it big time for lending their name to this...study. The actual peer reviews are listed...it did not pass muster. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
