Fukushima's Children are Dying

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7. Yes... he made it up entirely

Not the fact that FMU is doing tests, or that they found nodules and cysts... but that they've found anything abnormal. Roughly half of all Japanese children had these same structures in their thyroids before Fukushima... and they aren't "pre-cancerous" except in the same sense that anything that isn't cancerous is "pre" cancerous (which is to say... not really at all).

There's no reason to believe that thyroid cancer rates have changed at all. Diagnosis rates have climbed... but that's what you expect when you start applying more sensative diagnostic testing to a large population. Wasserman continually ignores the purpose of this testing. It's pretty well established that it takes several years or more before thyroid cancer appears after a significant radioiodine dose. Knowing that most cases of thyroid cancer go undetected, the Japanese (sensibly) set out to create a baseline for future studies. These aren't the studies that will show how many additional children get cancer from Fukushima... but Harvey continues to pretend that that's what they're doing.