From: pstemari@bismark.cbis.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 94 08:12:50 PDT
To: jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk
Subject: U & Pu "poisoning of the environment"
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> > Epidemiologic studies of workers [even wartime workers with impressive
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> > body burdens/ exposures] in a number of uranium bomb-making centers have 
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> > found ~ no health effects.
> 
> This is quite similar to saying that nerve gas is harmless because
> scarcely anyone working in storage areas has been killed by it.  Or
> that bullets won't harm you because people handle crates of them and
> they don't get shot.

No, it is not.  If you had read the message more carefully, you would
have had to phrase your example as, "This is quite similar to saying
that nerve gas is harmless because scarcely anyone who has inhaled
substantial amounts of it has been killed by it."