Posted on 04/12/2005 1:29:04 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi
Sadly, Environmental Reality Has Become Media Reality Excerpt: Spin: Perchlorate found in human breast milk Unspin: Study finds perchlorate in breast milk NOT from drinking water!
Once again a major environmental health study gets top billing in the headlines of the San Francisco Chronicle only to get the story all backwards. The headline “Rocket fuel contaminant found in women’s breast milk” (Feb. 23) merely regurgitates press releases from politicians and environmental activists posing as scientists and fails to tell the true story behind the recent report that perchlorate was found for the first time in human breast milk. So how did this story get spun in the media as just the opposite of what the study found?
Curiously no mention is made in any of the newspaper articles of the two major findings of the study (quote): (1) “perchlorate in breast milk does not appear to be well-correlated with the water the respective mothers are consuming;” and (2) “If we take all the available data, there is no meaningful correlation between the perchlorate and iodide levels in breast milk.” The researchers further hypothesized that perchlorate consumption comes primarily from food rather than from water! Moreover, perchlorate has been mysteriously found in Massachusetts, Texas, and New Mexico in places not associated with rocket testing, military bases, or munitions or fireworks plants and can occur in high concentrations (up to 3,741,000 ppbs) in natural rock deposits (see U.S.G.S. Open-File Report 03-314).
(Excerpt) Read more at chronwatch.com ...
Rocket fuel in breast milk = early training for potential astronauts.
PING to your environment list
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