Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster

[PamW]

1. JUNK SCIENCE!!!

Joseph Mangano is a NOTORIOUS purveyor of junk science.

Mangano used to run the "Tooth Fairy Project" that attempted to implicate nuclear power plants in all sorts of nefarious health maladies.

The Health Physics Society webpage used to carry a denouncement of the Tooth Fairy Project and told everyone to ignore what Mangano published.

Mangano and his sidekick Shermann published an article at CounterPunch, and the "cherry picking" of data to fudge the conclusion was so obvious ( they averaged over 10 weeks one side of the accident and 4 weeks on the other side ) that the CounterPunch statistician,Sprey, looked at the work and pronounced it a fraud.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/06/17/definitely-bachmann-over-weiner/

One of the CounterPunch critics pointed out that using four weeks before and ten weeks afterwards “looked like cherry-picking the data.” To overcome this potential bias, Sprey collated the death numbers for the ten week period before, then did the calculations comparing infant deaths for ten weeks before and ten weeks afterwards for the same eight cities. His result was a statistically insignificant difference in deaths per week before and after

Please, if you see a report on Fukushima, authored by Mangano or Shermann; please follow the advice of the National Academy of Science, and IGNORE anything they write as a probable FRAUD.

PamW