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FBaggins

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7. Thanks! I needed the laugh.
Sat Mar 9, 2013, 03:25 PM
Mar 2013

That's Caldicott's bunch... and the "report" was most certainly ginned up for use in this "symposium" (just as the tooth fairy has a new "report" he intends to push).

It's hilarious how this bunch supports each other in their advocacy. This "report" cites Busby's fantasies to support their own predictions for death (this was the outrageous notion that LNT is unacceptable for estimating risk... not because it overestimates them, but because he claims it UNDERestimates them. So he makes up his own conversion).

Note that this was the nutcase who claimed that the Japanese government was intentionally trucking radioactive materials all around the country so that the number of cancer cases nationwide would increase. That way any control/baseline group would have the same cancer rate as people from Fukushima (hiding the increase). This takes tinfoil-hat to chemtrail levels.

This combines Mangano's trick of cherry-picking data and claiming that it's caused by radiation... with Busby's nonsensical predictions correlating (without any evidence at all) person-sieverts with predicting cancer cases.

There's a reason this bunch is the laughingstock of the scientific community. You really don't want to rely on them for information.

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