“When their daughter developed a rare brain cancer, one Minooka physician and his wife began investigating. Could it be the two reactors upwind and the four upstream? They found an alarming uptick in cancer rates for Grundy County, Illinois.”
-Nuclear Energy Information Service
What about all the “alarming upticks” in counties without reactors? What about their map of Illinois, which clearly shows that Grundy County is in no way a representative sample? Why look at the county-by-county cancer rates at all if they clearly don’t apply?
If you torture the statistics long enough, they’ll tell you anything, I guess.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Fun With Statistics, Health, Scientific Method
Posted on June 28, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |
