It's amusing, actually, that you haven't addressed what I was actually talking about. DU's radioactivity isn't the issue (not in my opinion, anyway, but apparently you were unable to read that in my post. Amazing really, since I was pretty clear about that)- it's the heavy metal introduced into the body as a small particulate that is potentially dangerous- just as lead and mercury are dangerous. As a big lump of metal in the body (I told you myself about those vets, but no doubt you "missed" that in my post as well) I suspect it poses very little danger- except going in, obviously.
Here is data on his urine- though with heavy metals, which collect in certain parts of the body, concentrations can be quite high in certain body parts, while tests of bodily fluids don't necessarily show anything- though in this case they do show exposure to DU.
traprockpeace.org
You appear unaware that uranium can bind with DNA. thomhartman.com That has an impact on birth defects. I'd love to know if this is true:
"“Sixty-seven percent of babies born to the 400,000 vets who suffer from Gulf War Syndrome have birth defects,” said Joyce Riley, a former nurse who flew in Iraq and the founder and spokesperson of the American Gulf War Veterans Association. “But the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs do not want America to know the number of sick, dead and deformed kids that vets are having. It’s another cover-up.”
americanfreepress.net
The Us government has been less than eager to study DU, but some states are taking the matter in to their own hands, for example:
Louisiana has passed a law mandating testing for du:
HB NO. 570
... On and after October 1, 2005, any eligible member or veteran who returns or has returned to this state after service in an area designated as a combat zone by the president of the United States and who has been assigned a risk level I or II for depleted uranium exposure by his branch or service, or any other member or veteran who has reason to believe that he was exposed to depleted uranium during suchservice, shall have the right to a best practice health screening test for exposure to depleted uranium using a bioassay procedure involving sensitive methods capable of detecting depleted uranium at low levels and the use of equipment with the capacity to discriminate between different radioisotopes in naturally occurring levels of uranium and the characteristic ratio and marker for depleted uranium.
worldwidewamm.org
While your belief in the innocence of this heavy metal is touching, I wouldn't advise you to act on your belief by inhaling the stuff. I wouldn't wish heavy metal poisoning on anyone, unlike my government. |
