Deadly Deceit: Low-level Radiation, High-level Cover-up [Hardcover]

Dr. Jay M. Gould (Author), Benjamin A. Goldman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 1993 | ISBN-10: 0941423352 | ISBN-13: 978-0941423359 | Edition: 1

Now in paperback--the grisly truth behind the widespread effects of nuclear radiation. Publishers Weekly writes that it is "Impressively documented. . .powerful. the book should serve as a springboard for national debate".

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows; 1 edition (January 12, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941423352
• ISBN-13: 978-0941423359
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,123,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Nuclear link to Cancer? Must read, for your safety! September 4, 2007

By Gail Merrill

Format:Hardcover

I met this author, after I had breast cancer, which I got 11 months after my mother died of it. My tumor was not genetic. I was only 48 when I got it, while my mother was 68 and my grandmother never had it and lived to be 86. My mother lived on Long Island, NY which is downwind of 3 nuclear plants and notorius for breast cancer; it is one of the top 3 counties for breast cancer in the country. I had to learn why the northeast has the highest breast cancer mortality ( NIH data ) so I could try to protect myself from dying like my mother. The government's Atlas of Cancer Mortality for breast cancer map correlates with the government's nuclear map, all across the country. The author of this book, a statistician who worked for the Queen of England, and his good friend Dr. Ernest Sternglass who is a medical physicist who had appointments with Einstein, determeined that women who live within 100 miles of a nuclear plant have the greatest risk of dying of breast cancer. This is statistically proven and published. The CT Tumor Registry, the oldest and best in the country, documents that the 6 towns closest to the CT nuclear plant have the highest of 12 different cancers in CT. They also document that 14 and 15 year old girls are now getting breast cancer in CT. That never used to happen. Children in the area around the CT nuclear plant know 37 kids with cancer. There are 50 kids around the Port St. Lucie nuclear plant in FL with cancer; that is published. According to Dr. Sternglass, Strontium-90 is a radioactive nuclear emisssion that acts like calcium and goes to the bones and teeth. The daughter product is Yttrium-90 and that goes to the soft tissue, including the reproductive, lungs, pancreas and heart. A female can pass the Strontium-90 in her body to her fetus during pregnancy. This can be seen in the Baby Tooth Study, done at Radiation and Public Health Project.

Nuclear plants test milk from goats for the carcinogenic nuclear emission Strontium-90, for monitoring purposes. In CT there was, untill recently, a goat farm 5 miles from the nuclear plant. Test results revealed the milk was twice the reading gotton during the peak of the Nevada nuclear bomb testing days, which occured about 50 years ago. Between the goat farm and the nuclear plant is a school.

This author and Dr. Sternglass began Radiation and Public Health Project to inform the public. They have published 22 peer reviewed journal articles and are non profit. The web site is: radiation.org
I am very grateful for the work they have done and I would highly recomend this book. The younger generations are facing health problems not faced by older generations. Help protect your family with the education in this book.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Denial won't keep you safe August 6, 2007

By Karen Stern

Format:Hardcover

Although there may be room for improvement in terms of readability, the importance of the subject matter bumps this rating up to 5 stars. The nuclear industry has been able to masquerade as safe for a number of reasons. One important one is people are not affected by it uniformly. It can kill one person in their lifetime or make them sick for 40 years, while another person will feel nothing, or may pass the effects on to future generations. I have been ill with CFIDS since 1988. I was living in Santa Fe, NM, just 12 air miles from Los Alamos National Lab which has not only been targeted by the EPA for radioactive air-emissions violations but which has been blowing up depleted uranium in the open air for years. (Check back issues, The Santa Fe New Mexican, 1987-1992, also an excellent 2006 article in a Santa Fe alternative monthly) One of my friends from there is dead of suicide due to pain that wouldn't stop; another was fine herself but had a genetically damaged child that died at birth; several other semi well known artists and musicians from there had CFIDS for years. I have never done drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, have watched my diet and exercised and generally exceeded the standard American expectation for physical self-care for many years, yet now I have developed the 'controversial' Morgellons' Disease. See, when you're not suffering, it's easy to be skeptical. It's easy to brand people like me as 'weirdos'. There is no doubt in my mind that Dr. Gould & crew have hit the nail on the head.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Nuclear industry is not worth the risk December 19, 2007

By RezMiser

Format:Hardcover

Read the one-star reviews this book has received & you'll find that many people still don't get it: The effects of low-level radiation are not evenly distributed. Sure, you worked at Hanford & didn't get cancer, but what about all the others who did? Sure, you live next door to a reactor & you're still healthy, but what about all the others who aren't? The point is, does it make sense -- for the greater good -- to have these insanely toxic, radioactive materials produced, stored, handled & subject to all the risks associated with human behavior? The answer is NO.

As the nuclear industry tries to convince us again, in the name of global warming, that we should build more nuke power plants, it's time to revisit & re-learn the lessons that fueled the anti-nuke movement in the 70s. If you want any more evidence, read more about the horrible legacy of the first nuclear age -- which still claims victims & costs taxpayers huge sums of money for clean-up.

Let's learn from science & from past mistakes. No more nukes. Solar is the way to go forward, with a decentralized electric power system. Of course the corporations who profit hugely from big, polluting power plants & the inefficient distribution of power over the grid system will do their best to maintain the status quo. Resist. Change has never been more essential for the human race. And this is an essential book.