A recent article on the Al Jazeera English web site cites a disturbing statistic: infant mortality in certain U.S. Northwest cities spiked by 35 percent in the weeks following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The author writes that “physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant.” The implication is clear: Radioactive fallout from the plant is spreading across the Pacific in sufficient quantities to imperil the lives of children (and presumably the rest of us as well).

stopkillingourworld:

Scientific American

I’m stunned.  But why?  I don’t know.  This shouldn’t be a surprise. 

(via ashleyperfick)

Remember the other day when I said you can make a research study say whatever you want? This is how you do it.

Make sure you click through and read the whole Scientific American piece because the data for this study was cherry-picked to support this conclusion.

Source: scientificamerican.com

11 Notes

  1. m-y-b-l-u-e-s reblogged this from stopkillingourworld
  2. thebrowncoat reblogged this from ashleyperfick
  3. breatheinsolitude reblogged this from sustainable-sam
  4. giahoapham reblogged this from sustainable-sam
  5. politiblog reblogged this from sustainable-sam
  6. eamyelhsa reblogged this from sustainable-sam
  7. stopkillingourworld posted this