Le Pub de l'écologie

Citation : La recherche dans le nucléaire reste tout de même indispensable.

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In the 1950s, says Peto, this approach by Doll and Bradford Hill worked with the asbestos industry. "Initially the asbestos industry called them to try to prove there was no hazard," he said. The regulations on asbestos had been tightened up. "He and Bradford Hill got the data and found there was still a significant hazard."

The company representatives invited the scientists for dinner and tried to persuade them it was not in the national interest to be attacking a major industry, said Peto. Doll and Bradford Hill politely said they would think it over and 24 hours later told the industry they intended to publish. They were threatened with a writ, but went ahead regardless.

Several decades ago, scientists and publishers were not as concerned as they are now over sources of funding. Most of the fees that Doll received, however, went to Green College in Oxford, which he founded and ran as primarily a postgraduate medical institution. When Doll and Peto published their seminal study of cancers caused by workplace hazards in 1981, Doll gave his fee to Green College and Peto requested that his be sent to Amnesty International.

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je le pense aussi , tant que l'interet general passe avant la rentabilité et le profit , ce qui n'est absolument pas le cas aujourd'hui.

Citation : Le célèbre épidémiologiste britannique Richard Doll, surtout respecté pour avoir établi la corrélation entre le cancer du poumon et le tabac, a travaillé toute sa vie à étudier les effets sur la santé de certains produits toxiques industriels.

Citation : C'est exactement le discours de Charpak, entre nous

Citation : L’électricité nucléaire n’est pas d’abord un choix de société. C’est un choix technique qui tient compte des ressources naturelles du pays, des prix de production.

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typique. Les industriels decident , nous on est trop cons pour savoir , juste bon à raquer et à payer les pots cassés.Et puis c'est vrai que ca n'est pas notre pays et qu'on a aucun droit de regard partout.

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Revenons au nucléaire civil. L’équipement français du pays s’est tout de même réalisé dans des conditions de transparence discutables. On s’est retrouvé avec 70% d’électricité d’origine nucléaire sans que le choix de société qui le sous-tendait ait été tellement débattu...

Citation : Radiation from phone masts and power stations and chemicals in the soil, air and water around us are far harder to pin down and Doll believed there was no proof they played a role, which angered environmentalists.

He took the view that industry was not the enemy: if he worked with them, he would get the data to find out whether or not their chemical output caused cancer, according to Sir Richard Peto, who worked closely with him at the clinical studies unit of Oxford University.

"I think he was pretty open about consulting for Monsanto and other groups," said Sir Richard. "He did certainly believe that it was appropriate to work with industry and try to get them to monitor their workforces."