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03/27/2003 Archived Entry: "Nuclear Genocide?"

DEPLETED URANIUM: PLEASE DON'T EAT IT: Ronald Bailey has a good article in yesterday's Reason about the myths surrounding depleted uranium.

"A Department of Defense-sponsored review of the scientific literature by the RAND think tank concluded that 'there are no peer reviewed published reports of detectable increases of cancer or other negative health effects from radiation exposure to inhaled or ingested natural uranium at levels far exceeding those likely in the Gulf.' One need not be a conspiracy theorist to believe that the Defense Department's analysis and reporting on the substance's health and environmental consequences might be biased. But many independent organizations and scientists find little to worry about either."

You have to believe that anything Ramsey Clark is against, you have to be for.