5h06m44s20f Dr. Helen Caldicott claiming Nuclear Reactors Cause Leukemia - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-15

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Germany did a classic study of children under the age of five living less than 5 kilometers from sixteen reactors.

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
The incidence of leukemia was more than double normal. That study was then duplicated by the French. So they don't need to do another study!

Gordon McDowell:
The first one looked at leukemia rates among German children living within five kilometers of any operating nuclear reactor. Where 17 incidents leukemia would have been expected researchers instead found 37. The second study looked at leukemia rates among French children living within five kilometers of operating reactors. Where seven cases of leukemia would have been expected, researchers instead found 14. In both studies childhood leukemia rates very close to reactors are doubled. Also, in both studies, researchers strongly cautioned against assuming the increase in leukemia which from any sort of radioactive plant emission. How is it, the researchers involved in both studies saw a doubling of leukemia rates near the reactors, and then argue against any sort of radioactive plant emission as a cause? Wouldn't anyone like to know?

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
And those two studies are classic studies, they don't need any more studies. QED, it's proven!

Gordon McDowell:
Both the French and German Studies measured leukemia rates against distance from nuclear power plants. The French study followed the German, and so attempted to address from confounding factors that the German study lacked data for. The French study used 2 geographic models. One was simply distance to the reactor, as the German study had done. The second model incorporated wind direction to more closely model where any emissions from the reactor would be distributed. The excess cases of leukemia disappeared when using this more accurate weather model, meaning the vast majority of leukemia chases were not downwind from the reactors, as one might expect. This curious finding was then explored further in a third study, which saw elevated leukemia rates where nuclear power plants were planned, but had not yet been constructed. There was not yet any radioactive material on those sites.

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
They don't need any more studies. It's proven!

Gordon McDowell:
Nuclear power plants may be located close to cities and large population centers, but they're not dropped in the middle of housing units. Most frequently, in Europe and the UK, they're put in the industrial zones of small town. On land previously used for other purposes. The German study's increase in leukemia rates were all clustered where a chemical factory had once operated and later the nuclear power plant had been built.

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
They don't need any more studies.

Gordon McDowell:
The vast majority of scientific research finds no increase in cancer or leukemia is caused by nuclear power. Note again, that researchers of both the German and French studies caution specifically against presuming that any emission from the nuclear power plants was the cause. So what does Caldicott do? She tells her audience that the reports are evidence of exactly that.

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
We've lived and survived for 3 million years without electricity.

Gordon McDowell:
We can laugh about her prescription of a candlelit future...

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
We've got to stop- Do not- Never- Never use a- You don't need all this electrical gadgetry- Turn them all off! -television, DVD, ah, uh, uh, uh, uh, electric carving knives, all the flashing lights-

Gordon McDowell:
But it comes at the end of a terrifying diatribe. 

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
These look like thalidomide babies. Remember when pregnant women used to take thalidomide?

Gordon McDowell:
Between mischaracterizing good science, and regurgitating bad science, and just flat-out making stuff up...

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
This is Fukushima nuclear fallout released by the Australian Radiation Service- It's an absolutely wicked, wicked, wicked industry which kills people. These people should be tried like the Nazi war criminals were in Nuremberg, and I'm fed up with them!

Gordon McDowell:
...it's not until you're scared out of your wits that she suggests- we should switch from a clean source of lighting, to one of the very dirtiest. If a woman who repeatedly tells audiences easily refutable falsehoods...

Dr. Helen Caldicott:
-and there must be a law that people can't lie! People should be sued! Doctors can't lie. We would be deregistered. I would be be deregistered. If I lied about medicine- -I would be deregistered. And they haven't sued me, so I'm right.