Antinuclear

World Health Organisation downplayng Fukushima radiation risks

Dr. Caldicott says the WHO only focuses on thyroid cancer and ignores all other cancers and other radiation related diseases.

“There is a substantially increased incidence of thyroid tumors among exposed children, up to 50 percent of those tested by ultrasound. But instead of biopsying these tumors, they are ‘following’ them, i.e. doing nothing, which means they are
not being diagnosed and many of these children are therefore destined to die, because almost certainly
many of the tumors will be malignant,”     ….          She is far from alone in her views.

The Fukushima Battleground Over Science, By Aron Lamm, Epoch Times, 8 June 12,   More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear incident, there is still much disagreement about many aspects of its actual consequences. A recent example is a report by the World Health Organization, which estimates radiation doses and cancer risks in the wake of the disaster.
Its findings are being criticized by other medical professionals who use different assumptions and different science, and accuse the WHO of downplaying the gravity of the health risks for people living in the
affected area……
Dr. Helen Caldicott, former Harvard Medical School instructor, author,
and long-time anti-nuclear activist, is critical of the WHO’s
methodology. The Australian physician charges that the report is based
on estimations and “guesstimations” derived from very little data.
“In fact, no one really knows how much radiation has been and is still
being released,” she said.
Dr. Caldicott also disagrees with the WHO’s basis for calculating
cancer risks from radiation, which assumes that doses below a certain
level do not increase the risk of cancer.
She says there are studies showing that all radiation exposure is
harmful since the effect is cumulative. Moreover, she says, “New data
is now showing that very low doses of radiation may be more dangerous
… than originally estimated.”…..
Apart from her criticism of the WHO’s radiation estimations and cancer
risk assessment, Dr. Caldicott says the WHO only focuses on thyroid cancer and ignores all other cancers and other radiation related diseases.
She believes the Japanese government, medical establishments, and
power company TEPCO, are involved in a “concerted cover-up of data”
concerning medical abnormalities in the wake of the Fukushima
incident.
“There is a substantially increased incidence of thyroid tumors among exposed children, up to 50 percent of those tested by ultrasound. But instead of biopsying these tumors, they are ‘following’ them, i.e. doing nothing, which means they are not being diagnosed and many of these children are therefore destined to die, because almost certainly
many of the tumors will be malignant,” she says, adding that these
actions amounted to a “medical irresponsibility” on a level she has
rarely or never seen.
She is far from alone in her views. Since Fukushima, the Japanese
government has had a hard time convincing the public and elements in
the scientific community that it is being forthcoming with
information. In view of that, other information is being sought
elsewhere.
The scientific community is analyzing the data producing many of its
own reports. And blogs like “Fukushima Diary” are collecting stories
about everything from abnormalities in plant life to increases in
nausea and stress in schoolchildren, as well as closely following
developments at the nuclear plant itself.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/the-fukushima-battleground-over-science-249033.html#.T9Jx-be3uAs.facebook

June 11, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized