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Response to W. Kramer: The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities: Comment.
Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 19, 1335-1340 (2012)
This paper is in response to criticism of our article "The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities" published in Environ Sci Pollut Res 18(5):697-707, 2011. Our findings and methods concerning the disturbed human sex odds at birth have been criticized in this journal for being artifacts of data mining, that the concept of statistical significance was misunderstood, and that confounding factors have not been accounted for. Here, we show that this criticism has no basis. We applied well-established statistical methods to large official data sets, and confounding is less important at the level of secular sex odds trends in aggregated annual figures from countries or continents. Moreover, our results are strengthened by recent findings concerning increased infant death sex odds in Germany and increased Down syndrome prevalence at birth across Europe after Chernobyl. Prompted by our studies, an official investigation in Lower Saxony, Germany, by the "Niedersachsisches Landesgesundheitsamt (NLGA)" confirmed our observation of severely escalated sex odds within 40 km distance from the nuclear storage site in Gorleben, Germany.
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Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter
Binomial Distribution ; Radiation-induced Genetic Effects ; Sex Ratio ; Statistical Inference; RATIO; GERMANY; TIME
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2012
HGF-Berichtsjahr
2012
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0944-1344
e-ISSN
1614-7499
Zeitschrift
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Quellenangaben
Band: 19,
Heft: 4,
Seiten: 1335-1340
Verlag
Springer
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry (IBB)
POF Topic(s)
30501 - Systemic Analysis of Genetic and Environmental Factors that Impact Health
PSP-Element(e)
G-503800-001
PubMed ID
22421798
WOS ID
WOS:000303547200042
Scopus ID
84860530897
Erfassungsdatum
2012-07-23