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\J	"How ironic it is for a member of Congress to find it necessary
to sit here today and plead that an agency of government not pollute
the environment while at the same time Congress will be asked to
consider the expenditure of billions of dollars to clean up pollution
tht already exsists.  How ironic it is to be required to make a case
against a new ind of pollution so hazardous and lethal that all
existing pollution seems almost inconsequential."\.










\J	It is clear that the correlations presented in support of the
hypothesis depend on arbitrary selection of data supporting the
hypothesis and the ignoring of those that do not.  In several regards,
the data used by Sternglass appear to be in error.  One of the most
vital assumptions in the model - that without atomic tests the infant
mortality rate would have continued to fall in a geometrically linear
fashion - is without basis either in theory or in observation of trends
in other countries and other times ... In short, there is at the present
time no convincing evidence that the low levels of radiation in question
are associated with increased risk of mortality in infancy.\.

National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee
on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation.



\J	The position that Dr. Sternglass took may or may not turn out
to be the correct one.  However, his substantiation of the position
was, in my view, very weak.\.

Prof. Brian MacMahon,
Harvard School of Public Health.
"The California Nuclear Initiative"

Stanford University Institute for
Energy Studies.





"Nuclear Science and Society"

by Bernard Cohen, Doubleday Anchor Paperback.