“Help us track the effects of radiation in your community by simply donating one of your child’s baby teeth.”
-Radiation and Public Health Project (aka Tooth Fairy Study)
1. This is not scientific. There is no set sample, no control group or control data, not even a certainty that the teeth in question came from the community from which they were sent. There is no assurance that the teeth (and materials therein) came from people who had lived in the community their entire lives; for example, they might drink milk from cows hundreds of miles away.
2. The radiation levels are not necessarily due to fallout from weapons testing or (even more unlikely) from nuclear power plants. Any radioactive materials in the teeth, depending on where the teeth came from, would probably have come from radioactive mineral deposits (even granite) or coal plants.
3. Who is going to respond to this? Anti-nuclear activists reading that page. We all know that anti-nuclear activists are unbiased and wouldn’t send in 28 teeth from people who grew up next to whichever coal plant feeds nuclear weapons test blockhouses in Nevada and silently throw away ones from Vermont.
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Posted on September 29, 2005 by Stewart Peterson |
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This is the most ridiculously unscientific “study” I’ve ever seen. I completely (for once!) agree with you on all points.
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