to be distributed to them so they can challenge and they can ask about them and, if they wish, go and make their own measurements to verify them. We have done the best, we have done in the best way we know how, a job of determining the conditions, analyzing their significance to man and presenting them. We are not infallible nor do we guard these, this information and these conclusions in any way. They are open, open public documents for anyone to challenge and to give us suggestions about. Muller: I have a question now about the thyroid disorders and I recall seeing in some medical publication a figure that indicated that out of a population of 30,000 you would expect to find 2 thyroid conditions, I don't know if this means cancerous or whatever. This being the normal incidence of thyroid among a population of 30,000, given 30,000 people. Well, the 30,000 would certainly approximate the population of the Marshalls and yet we have had 500 such incidences. So what kind of explanation do you have for that? Ray to Bair: Buck: Ray: Bill Bair, do you have any comment to make on that, or... Oh, he says it is actually one out of 30,000. He's speaking of, I believe, normal incidence of thyroid abnormalities in a population (per 30,000). Bair: Ray: Bair: Ray: I have the information here, I think I can help. Do you want to come back to that? Yeh. Or. Bair thinks that he may have some information that he can look at right now. Let me suggest that we hold that question. 51