Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:40:16 PM
* The incidence of acute lymphocytic leukemia in children has increased more than 27 percent between 1973 and 1990.
* The incidence of childhood brain cancer increased almost 40 percent between 1973 and 1994.
* The incidence of the male genital defect hypospadias doubled, and the rate of testicular cancer among young men (age twenty to thirty-nine) rose by nearly 70 percent between 1973 and 1994.
I thought these statistics were a little strange being there is nothing after 1994. So I did a little digging (about 20 minutes online) and found a lot that just does not jive with her assurtion.
I found this, which is some different studies finding an increase in childrens Leukemia, but the study also found a similar decrease in the same type of Leukemia in people over 65. So what is that telling us? That either the study is not correct, or the environment is not the cause, as Barnett is implying, being people over 65 breath the same air and are probably just as likely to encounter the same chemicals as someone under the age of 19.
Then I found
this article in which the National Cancer Institute clearly states they take issue with these statistics.
It is easy to imply things, but hard to prove them. So many things in the green world are based on theory and the abstract, so read and believe carefully!
You know what? Maybe they simply don't know!