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> the rate of leucemia among small children living near nuclear plants in Germany is twice as high as average Here is a 2013 British study, where kids born in
by sampo 7y ago
> the rate of leucemia among small children living near nuclear plants in Germany is twice as high as average
Here is a 2013 British study, where kids born in the vicinity of British nuclear power plants, have less leukemia:
https://www.nature.com/articles/bjc2013560 https://www.nature.com/articles/bjc2013560
Here is a 2011 article that claims that the 2008 German study did not correct for confounding factors such as socioeconomic status:
https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110506/full/news.2011.275.html https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110506/full/news.2011.275.h...
- acidburnNSA 7y agoExactly. You can confirm a lot of bias looking at noisy data. This is what the Germans did in that study. Germany is very irrationally anti-nuclear. They shut down their nukes after Fukushima and replaced them with burning more coal, killing thousands of people in the process. They mean well but are totally misguided.