[CPEO-MEF] PAVE PAWS radar (MA) "gets all clear"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radar gets all clear

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
October 14, 2005

An epidemiological study has found "no convincing evidence" that pulsed 
radar waves emitted by the PAVE PAWS radar facility cause adverse health 
effects.

More specifically, the study found that among those exposed to the radar 
there was no evidence of increased death rates for certain cancers, such 
as lung cancer in women and leukemia.

The $450,000 study by the International Epidemiological Institute was 
the final piece in a series of four studies paid for by the Air Force 
and led by public health officials to determine whether the radar 
facility on the Massachusetts Military Reservation was in part to blame 
for some cancers on the Upper Cape.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/radargets14.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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