Dr. Louise Reiss, Who Helped Ban Atomic Testing, Dies at 90

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Dr. Louise Reiss, Who Helped Ban Atomic Testing, Dies at 90

New York Times
By DENNIS HEVESI
Published: January 10, 2011


Dr. Louise Reiss in 2003. Children who donated their baby
teeth received a badge.

Dr. Louise Reiss, who directed a study that examined hundreds of thousands of baby teeth during the cold war and helped persuade the world’s leading powers to ban nuclear testing in the atmosphere, died Jan. 1 at her home in Pinecrest, Fla. She was 90. Her son, Eric, confirmed her death.

Dr. Reiss and her husband, Eric, both physicians, were founding members of the Greater St. Louis Citizens’ Committee for Nuclear Information, which joined with the schools of dentistry at Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis University in 1959 to create the Baby Tooth Survey.

The goal was to show that radioactive fallout from nuclear testing was getting into the nation’s food supply and ultimately working its way into human bones and teeth. And the study succeeded. Dr. Reiss was named director of the project and, along with her husband, worked with other scientists in the project’s laboratory.

Over the next 12 years, the project collected nearly 320,000 baby teeth. Dr. Reiss, who was director for two years, organized the campaign. Young donors received badges bearing gap-toothed cartoon faces declaring, “I gave my tooth to science.”

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- So you see, it was the government (under the aegis of protecting us, along with the more than able assistance of the chemical and food processing industries), who in fact gave countless Baby Boomer kids the seeds of cancer that are now sprouting inside their bodies.

And yet Repukes want to put an end to government assisted healthcare because they say that's socialism. Maybe we should have funded healthcare through the Dept. of Defense budget as a followup to their nuclear testing programs.

Repukes never vote against money going to the Pentagon.......



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