secretiveoldfag
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I have been working for some time on a list of Scientologists who have died from cancer, suicide and other abnormal causes.
Out of a list of 100 cancer victims we know the age or approximate at death in fourteen cases. Add up and divide by 14 gives an average age at death of 47. In the US the median age of cancer patients at death ranges from 68 for black males to 80 for white females. The average for the whole population is 73 (National Cancer Institute). Thus Scientologists who die of cancer have lost, on average, 25 years of their lives.
This predeliction has been attributed to the gross neglect of the basic rules of health and hygiene within the cult, particularly within the Sea Org: poor diet, long hours, lack of sleep, and stress, combined with neglect of the condition after diagnosis. Both of these are probably important but they are not the only factors operating here. Cancer also starts much earlier in the Scientology community than outside. The median age of American cancer patients at diagnosis is 67. Scientologists who die of cancer on average die twenty years before their neighbors make their first visit to the oncologist.
So an unhealthy life-style and neglect cannot be the main factors. Even in the most deprived sectors of the American community the date of diagnosis is postponed by twenty years or more. We need to identify a factor that is specific to Scientologists and which might conceivably affect their health. Could this possibly be the E-meter?
Arnie Lerma suggested in 2006 that it was possible that the radiation effect of the E-meter, which sends a low current through the body and which maybe used over many hours, days and weeks, and from childhood onwards, is dangerous. Maybe this is true? If not, can anyone suggest any other specific factors operating within the cult that would explain the very early onset of cancer?
Arnie said: "There is an undisputably notable incidence of cancer amongst long time scientologists, especially OTs who hang onto the e-meter electrodes for hours a day, day after day, getting rid of Hubbard's hypnotically suggested body thetans."
The reason for the danger was minuted by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments meeting on 15 March1995 in Washington DC. It included the following:
"The nature of this curve is such that if you decrease it (the exposure intensity) by 10, the risk per millirad goes up tenfold. If you go down another 10, the risk keeps going up, and therefore we have a strange situation that the weaker the radiation intensity is, the more deadly it is ... We now find that we have a situation where we have far greater health effects than we ever thought."
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21381&start=0
A simplistic view of this process is that a ray shooting off deadly radiation on all sides does more damage when it travels more slowly.
Arnie could find no suitable control group "with such a long occupational exposure to direct current electricity", but we now have a sample of 14 Scientologists with a known history who can be compared with the average population. The result would obviously be improved if we had more information on age at death about the other 86 in the sample - the problems of a small sample are evident - but the 14 so far known have pulled the average so far down that the remaining 86 would need to average 77 years at death to bring the whole group into line with the general American population. There is not the slightest chance that this could happen.
It might be added that so far there are very few signs of asbestos-related cancer; Pamela Mallison is the clearest example.
Out of a list of 100 cancer victims we know the age or approximate at death in fourteen cases. Add up and divide by 14 gives an average age at death of 47. In the US the median age of cancer patients at death ranges from 68 for black males to 80 for white females. The average for the whole population is 73 (National Cancer Institute). Thus Scientologists who die of cancer have lost, on average, 25 years of their lives.
This predeliction has been attributed to the gross neglect of the basic rules of health and hygiene within the cult, particularly within the Sea Org: poor diet, long hours, lack of sleep, and stress, combined with neglect of the condition after diagnosis. Both of these are probably important but they are not the only factors operating here. Cancer also starts much earlier in the Scientology community than outside. The median age of American cancer patients at diagnosis is 67. Scientologists who die of cancer on average die twenty years before their neighbors make their first visit to the oncologist.
So an unhealthy life-style and neglect cannot be the main factors. Even in the most deprived sectors of the American community the date of diagnosis is postponed by twenty years or more. We need to identify a factor that is specific to Scientologists and which might conceivably affect their health. Could this possibly be the E-meter?
Arnie Lerma suggested in 2006 that it was possible that the radiation effect of the E-meter, which sends a low current through the body and which maybe used over many hours, days and weeks, and from childhood onwards, is dangerous. Maybe this is true? If not, can anyone suggest any other specific factors operating within the cult that would explain the very early onset of cancer?
Arnie said: "There is an undisputably notable incidence of cancer amongst long time scientologists, especially OTs who hang onto the e-meter electrodes for hours a day, day after day, getting rid of Hubbard's hypnotically suggested body thetans."
The reason for the danger was minuted by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments meeting on 15 March1995 in Washington DC. It included the following:
"The nature of this curve is such that if you decrease it (the exposure intensity) by 10, the risk per millirad goes up tenfold. If you go down another 10, the risk keeps going up, and therefore we have a strange situation that the weaker the radiation intensity is, the more deadly it is ... We now find that we have a situation where we have far greater health effects than we ever thought."
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21381&start=0
A simplistic view of this process is that a ray shooting off deadly radiation on all sides does more damage when it travels more slowly.
Arnie could find no suitable control group "with such a long occupational exposure to direct current electricity", but we now have a sample of 14 Scientologists with a known history who can be compared with the average population. The result would obviously be improved if we had more information on age at death about the other 86 in the sample - the problems of a small sample are evident - but the 14 so far known have pulled the average so far down that the remaining 86 would need to average 77 years at death to bring the whole group into line with the general American population. There is not the slightest chance that this could happen.
It might be added that so far there are very few signs of asbestos-related cancer; Pamela Mallison is the clearest example.
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