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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.sci,net.bio
Subject: Re: Plutonium
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 01:17:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 01:17:17 1986
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>From: ken@njitcccc.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
>If plutonium was as dangerous as you infered then we should
>be all dead by now.

Maybe we are!...more seriously, isn't anyone else in this plutonium
discussion at least mildly disturbed at the 10% increase in Cancer
deaths over the last 20 years recently reported by the Harvard School
of Public Health?

(again, to fend off the sophomoric, yes it was corrected for an older
population and all that, it seems to have convinced most of the professional
skeptics so far, the comments seem to be that if anything it may be worse
as some known "cured" cancers weren't completely accounted for.)

None of us wants to believe it, but some of us are getting worried that
the apparently inevitable result of our actions is slowly coming true.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University