Bair:
We don’t have the information to put in the report like that.
Bair:
And also it was not the subject of this report.
This report is to
deal only with the amount of radiation in the atolls of the Marshall
Islands now and the possible health effects in the future.
Marshallese:
We are talking about the future, whenever we speak about
children being born we are thinking about the future generations, those
that are going to be born.
So it seems like this information is pretty
pertinent and that kind of data probably should have been included in this.
Bair:
Well we have addressed that in this book for the future in terms of
the amount of radiation that the people will be exposed to if they live on
the islands.
We don’t feel that the radiation levels on any of the islands
in the Marshall
Islands where people are living now is high enough that
would cause any increase or any detectable increase in birth defects in the
future.
Marshallese:
I appreciate your answer but I feel that there are doctors
that we can summon who would refute this and would say in the coming years
there will be a great, a high increase number of children born with
defects.
Bair:
There are no data on any population in the world that has been
exposed to radiation that shows an increase in birth defects.
The
survivors of the bombs, of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan have
been studied for many years and there is no evidence of any birth defects
in these people.
No genetic effects have been observed.
The only
information that scientists have about birth defects comes from animal
experiments.
There are no human data that allows us to predict how many
birth defects will occur as a result of parents receiving radiation.
Buck:
You say that the human data has been studied and has not been
determined.
(They are laughing about the rats or the rodents. )
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