Uranium tests kept secret, inquiry hears CENTRAL MIDLANS AND COASTAL ADVOCATE ALEXANDRA SMITH 4/07/2008 -"A MAN whose parents died of cancer after living near a former uranium smelter at Hunters Hill told a parliamentary inquiry yesterday the NSW Department of Health had tried to cover up results of radioactivity tests.
Greg McGrath told the upper house inquiry he had gained access to letters from the department that said results of tests on the property where his family lived more than 30 years ago should not be released...................................................".

source: http://www.antinuclear.net/

Sounds like a conspiracy. That stuff doesn't just disappear. It would be a simple matter to prove it, if it were true.

freediver wrote on Jul 6^th, 2008 at 9:47pm:

Sounds like a conspiracy. That stuff doesn't just disappear. It would be a simple matter to prove it, if it were true.

Isn't it hard to find the cause of a not insignifanct number of cancers!?!

You can never prove the cause of an individual cancer. All you ever end up with is a probability. But if they left radioactive material lying around the place, that would be sufficient to make some kind of case. The point is that covering up radioactivity tests would be like trying to tell people there isn't an elephant in the room.