“[Cancer deaths are dropping because of a] New government program designed to educate public about dangers of eating uranium”
Yes, I know it’s a joke, but that’s how a lot of urban myths get started.
Ingesting uranium in high doses causes kidney failure, not cancer. But the quote is actually pretty illustrative of the practical problems involved in studies of the health effects of depleted uranium (especially compared to “clean” alternative bullet materials like lead).
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Environment, Health, Physics
Posted on January 31, 2007 by Stewart Peterson |
