From: Paul Watson paulwatson@earthlink.net
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:10:43 -0700



The latest retort from . . . Moore is very strange to say the least. Having presented him with information on the Sternglass study that demonstrates that Strontium 90 is in groundwater near a nuclear plant in Florida he asks me how the Strontium 90 got into the groundwater.

Gee I don't know ..., maybe it has something to do with the fact that there is a nuclear power plant in the vicinity of the community where the children are building up levels of Strontium 90 in their teeth.

Dr. Ernest Sternglass did say in his report that the nuclear reactor in question is in an area with heavy rainfall and a shallow aquifer.

Then he asks why are children drinking it?

It might have something to do with them being living organisms with a biological need for water.

..... probably thinks they should move somewhere else where the groundwater is not contaminated with Strontium 90. The reason they did not is that they probably were not aware of the threat and many of those who are aware of the threat cannot afford to move.

What we have here is a respected nuclear physicist with a study that demonstrates that Strontium 90 in groundwater is causing cancer in children. Then we have a public relations flak who is not a nuclear physicist challenging this report. Why? Because he is paid to challenge the report no matter what the scientific evidence is.
...t's clients do not want to hear negativity and ... makes a living speaking positively on behalf of his clients.

... once accused me of seeing the glass half empty whereas he always sees it half full. What I see here is a glass half full of contaminated groundwater.

I am not a scientist but I can recognize scientific bullshit when i see it and ...... is not acting like any kind of scientist that I've ever encountered. But I have seen his kind in sales, public relations, politics and law where bullshit rules and facts just get in the way of a saleable product.

Paul Watson



To: "Paul Watson" <</span>paulwatson@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: ..... Rejects Scientific Study on Nuclear Reactors leaking Strontium 90.


> How is Strontium 90 getting into groundwater? And why are children drinking it?
Cheers,


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From: "Paul Watson" <</span>paulwatson@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:52:37

Subject: .... Rejects Scientific Study on Nuclear Reactors leaking Strontium 90.

......,

You really are incredibly arrogant. Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Chief Scientist, RPHP; Professor Emeritus, Radiation Physics, University of Pittsburgh Medical School; and co-Principal Investigator of the Report that has found that Strontium 90 from nuclear reactor is responsible for cancer in children. He wrote; "Radioactive Sr-90 is a known carcinogen, which is only produced by fission reactions in nuclear weapons or reactors."

Sternglass also wrote "although radioactive emissions can enter the air, soil and diet, the most significant source of Sr-90 in southeast Florida children's teeth is groundwater, the primary source of southeast Florida's public drinking supply. This is due to the area's high rainfall and shallow aquifer."

Dr. Sternglass is a Physicist specializing in Radiation, yet you Dr. Moore reject the science because it embarrasses your clients.

You see that I predicted that one of your responses would be to reject the science.

The children who have died, are dying and will die in Florida and other places in the world near nuclear reactors will be consoled by your esteemed "scientific" opinion that they have nothing to worry about from Strontium 90.

Are there no limits to your hypocrisy?

Paul Watson


----- Original Message -----
To: Paul Watson: <</span>mailto:paulwatson@earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: ...... wants to save babies in Africa with DDT and kill babies in Florida with radiation.


The Strontium 90 in teeth is residual from atomic weapons testing. Nuclear reactors do not release strontium 90, unless you know something about them I don't. Strontium 90 is a fission product and is contained in the used fuel bundles which are stored on site.

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Watson: <</span>mailto:paulwatson@earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: ..... wants to save babies in Africa with DDT and kill babies in Florida with radiation.


...... Wants to Save Babies in Africa with DDT and Kill Babies in Florida with Radiation

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. ..... keeps weaving lies and myths, pseudoscience and industry supplied factoids in his continually contradictory perspectives designed to confuse and seduce people to support the myriad of lies that he spews out each day in an effort to satisfy the perverse demands of his corporate clients.

One day he is pushing DTT to "save" children in Africa and the next he is shilling for nuclear power to support the killing of babies in Florida and elsewhere.

...... is Dr. Nuclear Doom disguised as the caring and sensitive "truthsayer" whose self appointed task is to discredit and condemn the "evil" motivations of environmentalists who he would like everyone to believe are the enemies of mankind and the Earth. Shivering shades of George Orwell where we have ..... utilizing his Greenpeace credentials to discredit Greenpeace and all other environmentalists. In other word Greenpeace gives him the credibility to deny the credibility of Greenpeace. As the Guinness guy in the ads puts it "Brilliant."

...... is not the only one of course. Former Greenpeace UK head honcho, Sir Peter Melchett is now whoring for the public relations firm of Bursten and Marsteller. Former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach is now whoring for Wal-Mart. Becoming an environmentalist is rapidly becoming a stepping stone to corporate success.

...... continues to call himself an environmentalist and according to right wing Republican congressman Richard Pombo of California, ..... is the only real "environmentalist" he knows.

We can call this new type of environmentalism - ..... Whorism. In other words to be his kind of environmentalist, so as to enjoy the support of the likes of Richard Pombo all you have to do is be pro nuclear, pro DDT, pro-clear-cutting, pro salmon farming, pro plastic polluting, pro-genetically modified food, pro escalating population or in other words you have to be for things and not against things. ..... has decided to be for everything except the environment. He is anti Endangered Species Act, and anti anyone who sits in trees to protect them.

This self proclaimed "conservationist" has personally cut down trees in clear cutting operations. He has personally been responsible for a massive die off of fish at his fish farm where he conveniently collected the insurance and has personally shot at seals endangering his captive salmon. ..... the "environmentalist" now chairs a pro-nuclear agency along with former Bush administration EPA director Christine Todd Whitman. His latest absurd proclamation is that nuclear power plants do not contribute any greenhouse gas emissions into the environment. Of course this is the same man who claimed that the use of DDT does not cause any environmental problems saying that DDT can be used without releasing it into the environment. He does not explain how this feat of magic is performed.

He is thick skinned but he is paid to be thick-skinned. The money earned is worth the abuse he receives but ..... has the arrogance to allow criticisms to slide off his back like North slope sweet crude. When you make your living on your back you have to be dismissive of comments that impugn your reputation. ..... is a pro and turns his tricks expertly and being all things to all his clients, he has built up a steady list of Johns that he services with demonstrative enthusiasm.

But while he is on his knees servicing his nuclear industry clients, he may want to contemplate the following article that cites drinking water contaminated with nuclear plant radiation emissions as a verified cause of cancer in children in Florida.

What will his reaction be? (1) More studies are needed. (2) I reject the science. (3) The jury is still out on this. (4) They should not have been living so close to nuclear power plants. (5) They should have eaten more farm raised salmon which contains chemicals protecting people from radiation. (6) All of the above.



Captain Paul Watson
Founder and President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (1977-
Co-Founder - The Greenpeace Foundation (1972)
Co-Founder - Greenpeace International (1979)
Director of the Sierra Club USA (2003-2006)
Director - The Farley Mowat Institute
Director - www.harpseals.org: <</span>http://www.harpseals.org>


Childhood Cancer in South Florida
Study Finds Cause in Nuclear Plant Radiation Emissions -
Drinking Water Most Likely Source


Miami, Florida - A South Florida Baby Teeth and Cancer Case Study, that was officially released today, finds that infants and children are especially vulnerable to cancer caused by federally-permitted radiation releases from nuclear reactors, such as the Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear power plants, located in southeast Florida.

The five-year baby teeth study, also known as the "Tooth Fairy Project," found a 37% rise in the average levels of radioactive Strontium-90 (Sr-90) in southeast Florida baby teeth from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. When compared with baby teeth collected from 18 Florida counties, the highest levels of Sr-90 were found in the six southeast Florida counties closest to the Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear reactors: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River.

The current rise of radiation levels in baby teeth in Florida and in the U.S. as a whole reverses a long-term downward trend in Sr-90 levels since the 1960s, after President Kennedy banned aboveground testing of nuclear weapons 1963, due to concerns about increasing childhood cancer and leukemia rates from fallout.

Radioactive Sr-90 is a known carcinogen, which is only produced by fission reactions in nuclear weapons or reactors. It enters the body along with chemically similar calcium, and is stored in bone and teeth, where it can be measured years later using well-established laboratory techniques.

Significantly, the study documented that the average levels of Sr-90 found in the teeth of children diagnosed with cancer were nearly twice as high as those found in the teeth of children without cancer.

Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Professor Emeritus of Radiation Physics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and co-author of the study said that "although radioactive emissions can enter the air, soil and diet, the most significant source of Sr-90 in southeast Florida children's teeth is groundwater, the primary source of southeast Florida's public drinking supply. This is due to the area's high rainfall and shallow aquifer."

The study found the highest levels of radioactivity in samples of drinking water found within 20 miles of the Turkey Point (located south of Miami) and St. Lucie (located north of West Palm Beach) nuclear power plants, while levels of radioactivity were significantly lower in water samples further away from the reactors.

The rise in Sr-90 levels in both drinking water and baby teeth parallels a 32.5% rise in cancer rates in children under 10 in the southeast Florida counties, which are closest to the nuclear power plants. This compares with a average 10.8% rise in national childhood cancer rates from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.

The baby teeth study conclusions are consistent with the recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency admission that children age 2 and younger are 10 times more susceptible than adults to the cancer causing effects of toxic chemicals and radioactivity. According to the National Cancer Institute's SEER Cancer Statistics Review, from early 1970s to late 1990s, U.S. childhood cancer overall has increased by 26%, brain cancer by 50%, leukemia by 45% and bone cancer by 40%.

"There is now substantial evidence that exposure to federally-permitted radiation releases from nuclear reactors is a significant cause of increasing childhood cancer rates in southeast Florida, as well as a risk factor for cancer in Americans of all ages," said Dr. Jerry Brown, the study's co-author and Founding Professor, Florida International University in Miami.

Dr. Brown noted that, "the recent 2003 Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk found that the world-wide health effects of very low levels of radioactivity have been vastly underestimated."

In a Statement on Baby Teeth Study, Samuel Epstein, M.D., wrote, "Given prior evidence of the relationship between childhood cancer and radioactive emissions from 103 aging nuclear power plants in the U.S., and the well established biological risks of radioactive Strontium-90, it is now critical to recognize that radioactive emissions from commercial nuclear power plants pose a grave threat to public health in southeast Florida and throughout the nation." Dr. Epstein is Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, and Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition.

The study was conducted by the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) and funded by the Health Foundation of South Florida. The Radiation and Pubic Health Project is an independent not-for-profit research organization, established by scientists and physicians to investigate the links between environmental radiation, cancer and public health.

The Health Foundation of South Florida, a not-for-profit grantmaking foundation, is dedicated to expanding access to affordable, quality health care and providing funding that directly benefits the health and well being of underserved individuals in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. Since its inception in 1993, the Foundation has awarded more than $42 million in grants and direct program support.


- Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Chief Scientist, RPHP; Professor Emeritus, Radiation Physics, University of Pittsburgh Medical School; co-Principal Investigator of the Report.

- Dr. Jerry Brown, Research Associate, RPHP; Founding Professor, Florida International University; co-Principal Investigator of the Report. (English and Spanish)

- Lilyana and Bill Sager (Lilly), Miami, Florida, daughter diagnosed with cancer submitted tooth to study. Ms. Sanger will discuss why she supports the baby teeth study, her reactions to findings, and her concerns over increasing cancer in the Cutler Ridge area of South Miami-Dade County (English and Spanish)

- Lee Klein, CEO, Children's Cancer Caring Center, founder of organization that provides free medical care to needy families of children with cancer in South Florida and throughout Latin America.

- Steven Marcus, President and CEO, and Peter Wood, Chief Program Officer, Health Foundation of South Florida, an independent not for profit organization benefiting community healthcare and education. The Health Foundation funded the South Florida Baby Teeth and Cancer Case Study.

- Barbara Garrett, Senior Vice President, Applica Inc., a Miami Lakes-company that has supported the national baby teeth study.


Available for interviews by phone:

- Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public
Health and Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition. Dr. Epstein has reviewed the Research Report and provided a written Statement on Baby Teeth Study

- Dr. Hari Sharma, President, Radiological and Environmental Measurement Systems, Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Sharma is an international expert in radiological measurements and manages the independent lab that tests the baby teeth.

- Debi Santoro, mother who's infant has nerve cancer and who has submitted tooth to study and had her water tested.

- Audra Malone-Schmidt, mother of child with cancer who submitted tooth to study.

- Dava Michaelson, mother and breast cancer survivor, who has submitted daughter's tooth to the study.




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