The Roanoke Slant

Roanoke Times, 12/2/07, Pg Hz 2: Editorial: Over-used CT scans could lead to increased cancer risks down the line.
USA Today, 6/13/07, Pg 3 A: Federal panel backs compensation payments to 4,000 of 15,000 nuclear weapons workers at Rocky Flats, Co.
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For over 50 years the media has projected stories about radiation causing cancer. Stories included: X-rays, cell-phones, watch-dials, Radon in the home, flights in jet planes and metal tooth fillings to name just a few.
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The real radiation damage to people was done by nuclear air-burst testing. Over 500 in-the-air tests were done in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Radioactive residue was carried in the winds aloft to many parts of the globe and entered the food chain and water supplies
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Governments have tried to minimize the scope of this problem by only accepting thyroid cancer as being caused by fall-out.
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The adverse cancer consequences of these tests will be measured by a reduction in cancer rates by those people who were born after 1970. Some of this data is already showing up.
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Click on link for a more detailed view:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/cancer-and-500-nuclear-air-bursts.html
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