After reading “ECRR-2010<\/a>” and his book “Wings of Death<\/a>” there are some things that could be well worth looking closer at. Among the usual nonsense and exaggerations Busby makes a number of claims that could have some substance, or even be as important as he says. Some of his serious claims of cover up and dishonesty from the nuclear industry and radiation protection experts could also be worth taking seriously. In NPYP we simply do not know if these claims are valid because we have not had the time to look closer at them, and in some cases we lack the proper expertise to judge them. On the other hand, when you throw out so many claims in all directions, a few of them are almost bound to be true, if only by pure chance.<\/p>\n If we would choose to trust Busby and assume that all the items on the list of \u00a0interesting statements are true then one important question arises. If Busby is correct and honest in these cases, why does he then cheat and exaggerate in so many other cases?<\/strong><\/p>\n If he really is the honest and good rebel hero that he wants to portray himself as, a man who sincerely cares about people’s health, then he would not:<\/p>\n * The rather long list of publications may look impressive, but many of the articles are self-published, and of the rest it is very few that have been published in recognised mainstream journals, and none in any of the major journals related to radiation health effects, save for a few letters to the editor. Furthermore, some of his more “important” articles are from the “European Journal of Biology and Bioelectromagnetics<\/em>“, a temporary web journal for which Busby was a member of the “Editorial board” and which is no longer accessible. It must be very handy to be both editor and “invited reviewer” (as his CV says) to your own articles. The fact that Busby often refers to his articles in this “journal” is probably very practical as it become very difficult for others to scrutinize articles that are published in a journal that does not exist. But he can impress people with having them added to the list of “peer reviewed articles”.<\/p>\n * In spite of the fact that his visiting professorship at University of Ulster ended earlier this year he seems to be very keen on using the title “Professor”, it has still not disappeared from his CV<\/a> (August 2012 version), and he never objects when anybody uses it incorrectly (for instance on RT 15 October 2012<\/a> and \u00a0RT 31 October 2012<\/a>). Furthermore, every now and then (for instance as late as April 2011<\/a>) he uses the University of Liverpool as affiliation although he has not been associated with them for a number of years.<\/p>\n * The Talk page<\/a> associated with the Christopher Busby Wikipedia entry<\/a> is quite interesting, a harsh battle between different opinions whether Busby is a serious researcher or not, and what information that should and shouldn’t be put on the entry. Then somebody points out that the signature “Profwoland”, who is one of the most eager to defend Busby, actually is Busby himself…<\/li>\n * A more entertaining example is his Dishonesty<\/a> page devoted to me. Besides the ridiculous claim that the Swedish town Avesta was affected by depleted uranium from the second Gulf War he also uses my plot of the Swedish sex ratio and claims that there is an obvious effect due to the Chernobyl accident. One can discuss the validity in the way he draws the lines in order to convince the reader of a jump in the sex ratio after Chernobyl (see screenshot below). Harder to digest is the fact that Busby has cut out the x-axis from my figure so that nobody will notice that his invented jump in sex ratio actually occurs about 10 years after the Chernobyl accident <\/strong> (as shown in my original plot<\/a>). Well, we did notice, how embarrassing for somebody who is so keen on accusing others of dishonesty…<\/p>\n * Busby’s theory that Secondary Photoelectron Emission (SPE) gives a significant enhancement in detrimental health effects when heavy elements such as uranium enters the body was investigated by Pattison et al in 2009<\/a>, who came to the conclusion that although there is a physical effect it is not as large as Busby claims. Busby was of course not happy with that and released a Green Audit report<\/a> with debunking of the study, of course with the usual claims of dishonesty. To be fair, some of his complaints about the modeling actually seem valid. Too bad for him then that there have been two more studies (Eakins et al., 2011<\/a> and Tanner et al., 2012<\/a>) that through different approaches also come to the conclusions that any negative health effects are more or less negligible. And to add further salt in the wounds, the abstract of the PhD thesis of Andreas Elsaesser<\/a>, who performed the Monte Carlo calculations that Busby always refers to, reads “In conclusion, this work confirms the size and energy dependent production of secondary electrons by nanoparticles at the physical and chemical level. In a biological context, however, and with the parameters used in this study, secondary electron production seems to play a minor role with little impact for therapeutic applications or potential carcinogenic effects of background radiation.<\/strong>” <\/em>This must be very bad for business; A large fraction of Busby’s ECRR game, and all his claims about depleted uranium, depend largely on this effect. Now, will he attack Andreas Elsaesser as well?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nuts.jpg\" "\\"nuts\\"")
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\n* For instance until recently he used to claim to be a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry<\/a>. Somebody checked the claim and it turns out that he stopped being a member after 1984, which also means that he since then does not have the right to call himself Chartered Chemist<\/a>. So in the latest version of his CV (August 2012) the claim is changed into being a member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry<\/a> instead. This is quite amusing, since the Royal Institute of Chemistry ceased to exist in 1980 when it merged with some other associations to become the Royal Society of Chemistry. It is also noteworthy that Busby still claims that he was elected member of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1974, six years before it was founded through the merger of other associations. <\/p>\n
\n* Several times he has claimed that there are some secret uranium based weapon<\/a> being used by the U.S. in Iraq, and when he in November 2011 had a talk in Stockholm about health effects in Fallujah<\/a> he started his presentation with showing a video of one of these mysterious super weapons. If it was so secret then it is a wonder that you can find the very same film on Youtube<\/a>, showing a test with the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile<\/a>, used by the U.S. military since 1996. As a side note, the Javelin is the U.S. version of the earlier (and somewhat different)\u00a0Bill anti-tank<\/a> weapon invented by Swedish Bofors and used by the Swedish military since 1985<\/a>. None of them contain any uranium whatsoever. It is noteworthy that during Busby’s talk in Stockholm nobody questions any of his claims, in spite of the fact that we had tried to alert them<\/a> about Busby’s exaggerations.<\/li>\n
\n* Of the more sad examples are his attacks<\/a> on honest and concerned people, like Dr. Eckerman after she started questioning his reasoning<\/a>. The fact that she dislikes nuclear power is not enough for him, one has to be pro-Busby as well, anything else is bad for business. <\/p>\n
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