Bikini Atoll Project

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Journalist - Good evening, I’m here with a scientist from the famous Bikini Atoll experiment, Project 4.1. Can you tell me a little about your experiment?

Scientist - Thank you for having me. Project 4.1 was a medical study conducted on natives of the Marshall Islands who were exposed to nuclear fallout after the Castle Bravo nuclear test on March 1, 1954. Overall we tested 239 Marshallese and 28 Americans who were exposed to the radiation. Our study found that people who were exposed to radiation tended to develop thyroid cancer and various tumors throughout their bodies within 20 years.

Journalist - Was the experiment premeditated prior to the nuclear explosion?

Scientist - Of course not! The Castle Bravo explosion simply had an unusually large …show more content…
Scientist - Truthfully, there is no way. We only had one trial in the experiment and the conditions were so unique that I doubt anyone could replicate them again. Looking at the design of this experiment, it was not reliable at all.

Journalist - So if this experiment was not reliable, how did you come to conclusions in your testing?

Scientist - It was very difficult, but after about twenty years, we were able to find a few specific correlations between the radiation and thyroid cancer in the natives. Up until that point however, the results were ambiguous and statistically insignificant. We could find no clear cut pattern. Since there was no statistically significant data, we had to conclude that the experiment was invalid because it did not accurately measure what we set out to investigate in the natives.

Journalist - Wait, so basically what you are trying to say to me is that this experiment is not generalizable because there was no pattern in the results?

Scientist - Correct. We cannot use the results of this experiment to predict larger trends in the general
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