part 3

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Peat: And someone to check for the newer view that even it goes far beyond what Pauling and Gofman recognized the mutagenic effects of radiation. And Sternglass, was, he forced to recognize that there was something far beyond mutation and killing effect of radiation when he saw the many changes that were happening around three mile island where he got his large numbers, were in stillbirths, thyroid deficient babies born, or not born because of miscarriage by the mothers after they had ingested the isotopes, huge numbers of underweight babies, miscarriages and thyroid deficient babies were produced and then when he followed up, all across the country, he looked that the miscarriages and thyroid deficiencies followed just in the number of the months that you would expect from the damage developing to the, developing embryo, same with the production of leukemia, it was intrauterine exposure that was producing leukemia, but then he looked at all across the country the figures 18 years later in the Scholastic Aptitude scores and the first response to his pointing the falling scores, which happened in Utah, there was a tremendous, I think there was a 25% decrease in scores, 18 years after the heaviest exposure to bomb tests and right across the country the scores decreased in proportion to the radiation exposure of mothers 18 years earlier.
The first reaction was that well, more poor kids are now taking the test. And he showed that was wrong, in fact there were more lots more poor kids who were scoring lower taking the test, but he looked at the high range, that the very highest scoring students had decreased more, they were the most sensitive to the destructive effects of prenatal radiation effects. And he didn't, one of his co-authors, suggested that in-vitro experiments with so-called cell membranes showed that the free radical production propagated in these membrane lipids would have an extreme sensitizing to a very small amount of radiation but that wasn't, that was uh, in-vitro, some-what hypothetical membrance thinking, but Sternglass showed that some mechanism must be causing this, much higher sensitivity than simply mutating or killing cells. It's, even the industry people have to accept that the women who were exposed while pregnant to Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, their children had smaller brains and were mentally retarded in proportion to the amount of radiation they got. And that was a plane done on just the killing of brain cells, but just recently in Seattle of women getting dental x-rays, they would shield their whole body, but if they got a whole set of dental x-rays, the women, pregnant women, delivered underweight babies from the general physiological effect, something happened when their head was irradiated by the dentist that was transmitted to their whole body, that made the pregnancy less successful. So the Sternglass effects are supported by this kind of study that shows that irradiation of any part of the body will effect the success of the pregnancy and when the baby is born underweight, the brain is also underweight, sometimes worse than the general underweight of the body, so there's something happening, lingering for months after the exposure, in these actual experiences in people. 50 years after the people were exposed to the bomb in japan and 20 years after the Chernobyl workers were exposed, samples of their blood have been tested with removing the cells from their serum, their serum was then added to healthy cells, it was able to cause mutations or chromosome breaks, even 20 to 50 years after they had been exposed. So the dental x-rays effected the whole subsequent pregnancy but here people were demonstrating, lingering, toxic effects circulating in their body fluids decades after exposure.