effect that that, in our diet to the various parts of our body which was
described. ‘ You’re not doctors and yet you have approached this subject.
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Bair:
Yes, Dr. Bair.
I am a scientist.
radionuclides
I am not a physician.
I have studied
in experimental animals for 30 years, so I feel that I do
know what happens when radioactive elements are taken into the body and the
effects that can result from that.
Bair:
One other thing.
lie know in comparing our studies with what
information is available about human beings, that animals and human beings
are the same.
The information we have from animal experiments can be
applied to human beings.
Marshallese:
Yes.
I think I understand.
Thank you for your reply and I
understand in this way that by being a scientist and studying animals, you
are able to, then, also understand how certain things affect human beings
because animals react very similarly to human beings in this respect.
(and) So I am just assuming like youmay
have a rabbit in your laboratory
and you may feed this rabbit and observe it, then, and by determining that
when you find out that the rabbit gets something, for instance becomes
diabetic, then you can assume that there was a relationship between what it
was eating and it having that disease.
(and) Then you say because of that
information you can also apply this to people.
Is that accurate, is that
what you are saying your study of field of expertise is?
Bair:
That is accurate, although I would like to mention that in none of
our experiments have we seen diabetes caused by radioactivity.
Q:
I’d like to make one additional point on that subject.
In addition
to doing these predictions, when we use the diet that we assume, and then
from that conclude that a certain amount of radioactive material will be
taken into the body and stay there, thus, there to cause radiation of the
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