The WHO's sleight-of-hand trick is revealed in the ABC News coverage of this report:
"The assessment also says that male infants exposed at the highest level -- between 12 and 25 millisieverts -- have about a 7 percent relative risk increase in the lifetime risk of leukemia and that female infants have about a 6 percent increase in the lifetime risk of breast cancer." -ABC, Cancer Risk From Fukushima Found in Japanese Infants
What does this tell us about their methodology?
The WHO report ignores ongoing contamination in food, air, and water. That's what it tells us. The main contamination pathways are not a part of this so-called "study." The wishful thinking addresses only a small part of the problem, and not its totality. Ongoing contamination from radionuclides in the environment are by no means limited to "25 millisieverts" as a "highest level." Thus the continued poisoning of the population of Japan, and elsewhere, is discounted with happy talk and business as usual.
This is, of course and predictably, bogus number rigging. That is what the history of this issue has shown us. It is the standard practice on nuclear-industry questions in the mainstream media and at the UN bodies.
The NY Academy of Sciences 2009 book, Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, which cites 5,000 medical studies by scientists and doctors in the radiation zone, should be first on the reading list for anyone who wishes to promote nuclear power. Ignorance is no excuse. Techno-geeks quickly devolve into techno-fascists when discussing life and death over others. The people of Fukushima and Belarus have not chosen these risks. Radiation was forced upon them by centralized governments, which routinely deceive about the consequences. This is morally unacceptable by any standard.
...And to think, I had included BoingBoing on my new blogroll. Delete.
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