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.
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