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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pardon me, as a neurosurgeon, for weighing in here. Each year about 80,000 brain tumors are diagnosed in the country. There are believed to be about 700,000 people with a brain tumor at any given time. Assuming a population of 315,000,000, this means that 1 in every 450 people has a brain tumor.

Spring Valley is probably about 4000-5000 people. Thus, we should expect to see 10 people in Spring Valley with a brain tumor at present. Given the focality of this issue, people living elsewhere that once lived in Spring Valley may perhaps believe their tumor is a result of their previous residence. Bald statistics already suggest approximately 10 Spring Valley residents have a brain tumor for reasons completely unrelated to toxic chemicals. The misattribution of other cases to Spring Valley serves to further paint what is likely a deeply misleading portrait of ill health.

You may call me a naysayer, but these are just statistics and logic. I'm not trying to represent any side in this discussion other than facts. [/quote]

You need some of idea of who the impacted population is to calculate the rates of major health events. I'm not sure anyone thinks it's all of Spring Valley, but there are clearly some areas that have a very high density of buried munitions and were likely also used for testing. Those areas, as far as I know, have not been looked at in anything like a rigorous way. Please correct me and point to the rigorous look at this if it exists.

I'm not sure you're wrong, but I don't see enough of a close look to feel that any particular take on the safety of those areas is established.[/quote]

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