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Jay M. Gould
Jay Martin Gould (August 19, 1915 – September 16, 2005), was an economist, businessman, statistician and epidemiologist who cofounded the Radiation and Public Health Project in 1989. It was Gould's contention that radiation from nuclear power plants was causing high rates of cancer in surrounding neighborhoods. For more than two decades, Gould routinely warned that low levels of radiation from nuclear reactors were far more dangerous than commonly believed. But his research was criticized by many in the scientific community as being alarmist. In 1996, Gould published the book ''The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors''. Early life and career Gould was born in Chicago in 1915 and raised in New York. He earned his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and his doctorate from Columbia University. He was originally an economist, specializing in antitrust and input-output economics. Gould was an early adopter of information technology in economic applicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiation And Public Health Project
Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization founded in 1985 by Jay M. Gould, a statistician and epidemiologist, Benjamin A. Goldman, and Ernest Sternglass. The "shoestring organization" with "offices mainly on oseph J. Mangano'skitchen table" was established to examine the relationships between low-level nuclear radiation and public health and question the safety of nuclear power. According to a 2003 article in ''The New York Times'', the group's work has been controversial, and had little credibility with the scientific establishment. Similarly the work of the RPHP has been criticized by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission: "Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies do not support the RPHP's claims. NRC finds there is little or no credibility in the RHP's studies". In an April 2014 article in ''Popular Science'', Sarah Epstein referred to the group's work as "junk science" and disputed the group's peer-reviewed publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |