Helen Caldicott

Anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott has argued that the nuclear industry is “conducting a whatever-it-takes propaganda campaign” and distorting scientific evidence on radiation’s effects. Here, Geoff Russell responds.

Not exactly a party on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Pic: AFP

Helen Caldicott proposes a grand coverup by the World Health Organisation and presents as her only evidence a 1959 agreement between WHO and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

A search of the international medical research database PUBMED for “Chernobyl” shows 3767 scientific papers. These are from researchers all over the world. Papers like “Did the Chernobyl atomic plant accident have an influence on the incidence of thyroid carcinoma in the province of Olsztyn?” by Polish scientists. The answer, by the way was “no”.

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  • Kelly says:

    12:39pm | 04/05/11

    Such reliance on Meta-studies (ie studies that do no new research but only look at what has been published) as this article does is misleading and fundamentally flawed because these meta-studies do not factor any bias in the collected works, nor do they show areas lacking in research. Generally meta… Read more »

  • molly says:

    12:29pm | 04/05/11

    Clearly Geoff hasn’t seen the doco. Read more »

 

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