In 2005, my latest hero in uncovering the truth about the effects of ionizing radiation on human health died. Dr. Jay M Gould was a statistician and epidemiologist. He was a thorn in the side of the nuclear industry. And in the side of the medical profession that supported it.
With In 1985, with Linus Pauling, Ernest Sternglass, Benjamin Goldman, Jannet Sherman and Joseph Mangano, he founded the Radiation and Public Health Project which is best known for the second iteration of the "Tooth Fairy Project" - the first iteration occurring during the 1950's and credited with cessation of atmospheric nuclear bomb testing.
Originally an economist, he founded a successful company that used computer forecasting to project economic growth. He was appointed to an environmental protection board by President Carter in 1980 and used his expertise as a statistician to assess population health against the presence of toxic waste, which eventually led him to nuclear waste.
With Dr. Benjamin A Golding, he wrote Deadly Deceit: Low-Level Radiation High-Level Cover-Up, published in 1990. In it he makes the outstanding claim that government has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal the effects of radiation on health, particularly radiation from nuclear power plants, nuclear bomb tests and nuclear power plant accidents both in the US and abroad on health.
The Radiation and Public Health Project has published more than 30 peer reviewed scientific articles. Repudiated by the nuclear industry and called "junk science" in Popular Science, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission used a Brookhaven National Laboratory statement to widely discredit the findings by attacking the researchers as "ice-cream epidemiologists".
I think that the US NRC has a circle of spin-doctors who devise words to slander and means to enter the public domain.
Dr. Louise Reiss was the original "Tooth Fairy" collecting children's baby teeth in 1959 to 1970, cataloguing them and analyzing them for strontium-90 content.
My new heroes, Jay M. Gould and Benjamin A Golding.
Golding apparently wrote another book that sounds like something I'd like:
| Discounting Human Lives: Uranium and Global Equity by Only copy that I can find costs $148.00 US. |
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