tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583590687956540859.post1051320362800283318..comments2024-01-18T00:18:10.209-08:00Comments on Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff): McCullom Lake Village: Brain Cancer ClusterXenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04080841307174630996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583590687956540859.post-34682613292095156442010-09-16T22:21:09.000-07:002010-09-16T22:21:09.000-07:00There's been literally 100s of "cancer cl...There's been literally 100s of "cancer clusters" officially investigated since the 1950s/60s, or thereabouts. And, almost all have turned up clueless. They're usually said to be due to random clustering events. And, the statistics involved in such studies can be quite sophisticated. But, I wonder if it's only obscure the issue. There are, after all, some interest by outside parties about the result of the studies ... For example, I just read about a case in early 1980s of 6 leukemia cases in one school and 6 more in the neighborhood of the school, all of which occurred at about the same time. The CDC investigators, however, said that they doubted it would be anything more than random cluster, despite the fact that the event took place in the vicinity of several chemical mfg. that dealt with benzene, a well-known physiological trouble-maker. It might just be that politics plays a role in cancer cluster studies. Imagine that a political factor in a physiological disease!Annnoreply@blogger.com