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Cancer rates for pilots?
- Thread starter nsnyder11
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Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
SEALs maybe. Not sure about USN, but Israeli Navy frogmen had developed unusually high rates of cancer cases, perhaps due to their training places in rivers polluted by industry.
Everything that Kirov-class nukes of Russian Navy had possessed in relation to the health is avid alcoholism, btw.
More people are also doing IVF, which tends to produce twins, etc. you’d have to control for that in your theory.
Well, my wife was on the pill when we had our twins and several of my buddies also weren't actively trying to have kids (though the topic of their preferred method of birth control never came up in casual conversation around the flight room) Lots of surprises in those couple years.
At least the JP5 should kill the bacteria from the grey water...
It also takes the edge off of the taste by replacing it with a different edge.
Your anecdotes are acknowledged.
I always was amused at the going theory of “VAQ gives you girls,” after most of my fellow fleet JOs who had kids ended up with sons.
1-2% of births are from IVF. Your snark is acknowledged.
As long as they don’t all look like the Master Chief
That’s great, but not particularly useful information. While we’re throwing around anecdotes, I was in a squadron where three of the officers were in some phase of the IVF process, which is a lot more than 1-2%. The entire point of me bringing up IVF in the first place is as just one example of any number of plausible explanations for twins, because “the radar made my wife have twins” doesn’t carry a lot of scientific weight, IMO.
Your anecdote is acknowledged.
Yes, exactly the point.
Like I said...it could all just be coincidence.
Or, it could stem from flying around one of the most high power radars ever put on an airplane.
Also, around that time, we all had a diet heavy in yams too...that also might have something to do with it.