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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (97012)4/30/2003 8:04:31 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it, including stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead and director Dick Powell. Experts say under ordinary circumstances only 30 people out of a group of that size should have gotten cancer....

Approximately one of every four deaths in the U.S. is from cancer. Cancer would be expected to result in 55 deaths in a random sample of 220 persons. As not all cancers are fatal more than 55 cases of cancer would be expected. Even a weak statistical association requires a relative risk of at least 2 or in this case 110 cases of cancer.



To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (97012)5/1/2003 7:55:05 AM
From: JustTradeEm  Respond to of 281500
 
Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it

Your first mistake was taking these figures as gospel or fact.

Oh, I forgot, they were posted on the internet and contained in a book by some hack about Howard Hughes ....

That's a credible start right there.

JB


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