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Harrassment of researchers Pat Horan, a researcher at Memorial University in Newfoundland, conducted reseach involving sensitive assays for detecting DU levels in exposed people. This research was related to an investigation of a jetliner crash in Holland. Her work was pointed to by DU activists as evidence that various governments and DU researchers often didn't use adaquately sensitive assays, since she claimed to find conclusive evidence of DU accumulation (vs. 'natural uranium') in subjects' tissues. After criticism from the Canadian Department of National Defense and the U.S. military, she claimed to have suffered strong harrassment, and was eventually dismissed in 2002, despite there being no other staff who could operate MUN's high-tech DU detection equipment. |
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‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium
cancer fears in Iraq
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Transuranic Uranium - Even worse than DU Some activists are pointing to the use of 'recycled uranium' for armaments production, as an even more outrageous crime than simple DU weapons. This uranium is said to contain plutonium and other extremely dangerous nuclear waste products.
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DNA binding of uranium See details on this controversy on the DUBBS Research page. Click here. http://www.stripes.com/ April 15, 2006
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Photos of birth deformities A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Some of the most influential material on the Net regarding DU and its damage comes in the form of disturbing photos of birth deformities. These photos are often difficult to use as evidence due to problems of verifying their sources and matching them to statistical evidence showing said deformities to be true examples of DU effects.
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http://www.llrc.org/jargonbuster.htm#dose Dose is Meaningless (LLRC) http://www.cerrie.org/
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Dose - Is it a good way to measure exposure? Serious DU activists agree that a key problem facing them is a lack of understanding of the differences between harmful low-level radiation and better-known high-level radiation. The former often involves alpha decay, which is only dangerous internally, but under the right circumstances can be even more deadly than other kinds of radiation. Activists say reports denying the dangers of DU typically compare "dose" which is a broad measurement unable to distinguish between the internal and external effects of a radioactive contaminant. See the LLRC.org website (top page) for much more information on this line of argument.
"In other words, where hot or warm particles or Plutonium or Uranium are located in body tissue or where sequentially decaying radionuclides like Strontium 90 are organically bound (e.g. to DNA) “dose” means nothing. This is massively significant. Official radiation risk agencies universally quantify risk in terms of dose. If it means nothing the agencies know nothing and can give no valid advice." From: Dose is Meaningless at LLRC. |
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Linear No Threshold model - fact or fiction? This widely-taught theory holds that a dose-response(mutation) curve for radiation is linear. Although we cannot discern the mutation rates of tiny doses, since the line appears to emminate from [0,0] many have assumed that tiny doses cause tiny (i.e. statistical) increases in mutation that could be observed only be monitoring large populations.
The big question for DU, an alpha emitter considered by critics to be dangerous, as an internal carcinogen, is whether this holds true or not. There is evidence that it doesn't hold true for external radiation. |
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Suppression of media reports
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Radioactive Wounds of War Tests
on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted
uranium use in Iraq By Dave Lindorff The followup discussion to this article got 525 posts. (More evidence of the need for DUBBS.info I daresay.) (Recommended!) On the fifth page of comments, the author, David Lindorff ended his amicable relationship with In These Times over their refusal to print his letter of protest against an ITT decision to retract and apologize for publishing Lindorff's assertion that the US used 3000 tons of DU munitions during the Second Gulf Invasion. That is 2,721,554 kilograms assuming he meant short US tons. That's about a hundred grams for every person in Iraq. In the letter, Lindorff attests to the credibility of Doug Rokke, a key figure in the anti-DU campaign. Lindorff claims that ITT apologized for the 3000 ton figure based on hazy inside Pentagon sources as reported by a known anti-anti-DU campaigner, Jack Cohen-Joppa, a man who, according to Lindorff, "claims to be opposed to DU weapons but who has been conducting a one-man campaign aimed at discrediting those who write about it." The counter figure: 200 tons. Too bad they didn't have a DU BBS to fight it out on. |
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DU bullets for M-16
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Reposted from this online debate at:
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DU in bunkerbusters US ADMITS THE USE OF DU IN BUNKERBUSTERS THEY CONTRADICT THEMSELVES DoD Claims
‘Depleted’ Uranium (DU) Not Used in
‘Bunker Busters’ How then to explain Congressional
testimony, patent specifications and DOD cruise missile descriptions? HOW BUNKER BUSTERS WORK! ROYALK SOCIETY URGES CLEANUP OF DU WHERE BUNKER BUSTERS
WERE USED. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938336,00.html#article_cont
tinue DOCUMENTED ESTIMATES for Balkins & Gulf War DU
use DEPLETED URANIUM CONCERNS DEPLETED URANIUM ARCHIVE US STOCKPILING URANIUM RICH BOMBS AND THE STAR OF THE SHOW IS GBU-28 BLU-113 PENETRATOR A must read: |
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The Great Depleted Uranium Cover-Up This historical overview of DU examines (from a broad perspective) the tendency of militaries to de-emphasize and even cover up the negative effects of their highly effective DU munitions. It mentions the suppression of Pat Horan's scientific results (see above), harrassment of journalists (including Felicity Arbuthnot, who was rammed off the road by an unmarked car) and the Royal Society and Rand reports listed on the Official Statements page of this Web site. This page is a good place to start if you're looking for DU conspiracies. |
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Harassment of anti-DU activists An extensive set of complaints
against the Berkely Police Department by Leuren
Moret is found here: |
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Claims of misrepresentation and
waving of false credentials by anti-DU activists Several
leading anti-DU activists have been attacked in print and/or harassed
by "concerned" others. Please see this Webmaster's blog entry on the
subject here: http://www.gnn.tv/B21934
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Traprock Peace Center, Leuren Moret and Doug Rokke Mislead Public on Depleted Uranium by Robert Holloway
This strange page was brought to my attention by a post on a DU
discussion thread here. There is an incongrous Barnes&Noble logo
floating at the top, and the contents amount to much slander against
Leuren Moret and Doug Rokke from various sources. It is maintained on
the server of Nevada Technical Associates, Inc. and is not linked to by
any page on the company Website, or by very many Websites on the Web
according to Google.The page is the responsibility of the company
president, Dr. Robert
Holloway.
LTC
Roger Helbig, United States Air Force: A Bully Pushing Around Civilians
-- Air Force Colonel Abuses American Citizens over Uranium Weapons
Coverup by Dr. Doug Rokke, US Army, Ret., and Bob Nichols in Axis of Logic.There are interesting comments from the Axis of Logic editors here. |
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"Facts,
Myths and Propaganda In the Debate Over Depleted Uranium Weapons"
by Dan Fahey (an infamous paper in which Fahey judges several prominant
anti-DU activists as hysterical sensationalists; my wording) unsolicited Review of Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan (PDF) by Dan Fahey on Aldermaston Report (February 2006) |
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Challenges to claims of 'depleted uranium clouds' blowing over England from Iraq The "Aldermaston" report of DU clouds over England during Gulf War II was initiated by Dr. Chris Busby. He has drawn a lot of criticism for making this report. Many have questioned his scientific skills, and he has been accused of intentionally floating a fake story for political reasons.
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