{"id":27812,"date":"2013-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2013\/04\/25\/just-the-facts-maam-just-the-facts\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:41:23","slug":"just-the-facts-maam-just-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2013\/04\/25\/just-the-facts-maam-just-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Facts, Ma&#8217;am. Just the&nbsp;Facts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think the facts would persuade people like the Canadian Association of Physicians\u00a0for the Environment (CAPE) . But that appears not to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Gideon Forman, their executive director, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandtoday.com\/2013\/04\/23\/taking-a-look-at-green-energy\">told health authorities in Haliburton region<\/a> that kids living near nuclear energy facilities face higher risks of leukemia.\u00a0 Forman, who is not a medical doctor, cited the widely discredited German study <i>Kinderkrebs in der umgebung von Kernkraftwerken<\/i> (KiKK), published in 2008. (The title translates to \u201cChildhood Cancer in the Environment of Nuclear Power Plants.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the problem. It\u2019s just not true.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca\/eng\/mediacentre\/perspectives\/fact-sheet-kikk-study.cfm#background\">several follow-up studies have reviewed the KiKK work<\/a>. Every one of them concluded that the kids\u2019 leukemia risk could NOT be blamed on the nearby nuclear energy facility.<\/p>\n<p>Even CAPE acknowledges in its own literature that the German study proved nothing: \u201cThe authors state that the reason for the elevated risk is unexplained, as the levels of radioactive emissions from these facilities are considered too low to explain the increase in childhood leukemia.\u201d (Source:\u00a0 Cathy Vakil and Linda Harvey, <a href=\"http:\/\/cape.ca\/permalinked\/Human_Health_Implications_of_the_Nuclear_Energy_Industry.doc\"><i>Human Health Implications of the Nuclear Energy Industry<\/i><\/a>, p. 62)<\/p>\n<p>As the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission said in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca\/eng\/mediacentre\/perspectives\/fact-sheet-kikk-study.cfm#background\">review of the KiKK studies<\/a>, \u201cany claims of a link between childhood leukemia and radiation from nuclear power plants are unfounded and not supported by a wealth of evidence resulting from multiple epidemiology studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And as the commission chairman, Dr. Michael Binder, wrote last August in a letter to the <i>Hamilton Spectator<\/i> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca\/eng\/mediacentre\/issues\/letters_to_the_editor\/August-8-2012-better-science-medical-association.cfm\">specifically rebutting CAPE\u2019s allegations<\/a>, \u201cThe truth is that studies have shown over and over that people living near nuclear power plants are as healthy as the rest of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forman also cited scientific studies to show that \u201call reactors release radioactive material routinely\u201d but failed completely to put this into perspective.\u00a0 The truth is that nuclear energy facilities generally add less than 0.1% to the background radiation that occurs naturally.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca\/eng\/readingroom\/radiation\/radiation_doses.cfm\">Canadians receive over 100 times more radiation dose naturally through the food we eat than from Canada\u2019s nuclear energy facilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the facts. Shouldn\u2019t doctors deal in facts rather than fiction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think the facts would persuade people like the Canadian Association of Physicians\u00a0for the Environment (CAPE) . But that appears not to be the case. Gideon Forman, their executive director, apparently told health authorities in Haliburton region that kids living near nuclear energy facilities face higher risks of leukemia.\u00a0 Forman, who is not a medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-27812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talknuclear"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Just the Facts, Ma&#039;am. 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