Jay M. Gould

Jay M. Gould, also: Jay Martin Gould ( born August 19, 1915 in Chicago, † 16 September 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City ) was an American economist, statistician and epidemiologist.

Life

Gould was born in 1915 in Chicago but grew up in New York. He studied economics, first at Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. from New York's Columbia University.

He founded in 1970 the company "Economic Information System" that created economic forecasts by computer applications. Only later he became interested in the topic of " radiation". In 1980 he sold his very successful company and was called by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to the Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Due to its comprehensive statistical knowledge and skills Gould busy with studies of death rates and toxic waste at dumps and later with radioactive radiation from nuclear power plants. Important Gould was to clarify the influence of radiation on humans. In his studies and publications, he has demonstrated higher rates of death due to cancer in the vicinity of nuclear power plants. He was thus worshiped in the anti- nuclear movement as a leading head.

Jay Gould was also in the company " Public Data Access Inc. " involved that made especially environmental data available. Martin Jay Gould was with his wife Jane Gould and Professor of physicists Ernest J. Stern Glass ( * 1923 in Berlin) and others, the founder of the " Radiation and Public Health Project ( RPHP )" ( radiation and public health) project in New York. Gould was a director and first president of the RPHP

By Benjamin A. Goldman, Gould, in his book " Deadly Deception radioactivity. Radiation Low High risk " asked the conventional doctrine for radioactivity in question. The authors have their militant views verified with the extensive evaluation of large data material from health authorities and from death registers, with the result that after each release of radioactivity above average number of deaths were recorded. This was particularly noticeable in infants and young children and in people with immunodeficiency diseases. From the great abundance of facts presented prove Gould and Goldman that a limit beyond which the radioactive radiation exposure is harmless, is not detectable. The book has led to considerable public debate with the nuclear industry.

Dr. Jay M. Gould died of a heart attack in New York's Mount Sinai Hospital Clinic. He left behind his wife Jane.

Literature (selection )

  • Jay M. Gould: "Quality of Life in American Neighborhoods: Levels of Affluence, Toxic Waste, and Cancer Mortality in Residential Zip Code Areas", Westview Pr, 1986, ISBN 0-8133-7187-2
  • Jay M. Gould and Benjamin A. Goldman: "Deadly Deceit: Low Level Radiation, High Level Cover-Up ", Four Walls Eight Windows / Avalon 1990, ISBN 0-941423-35-2
  • Jay M. Gould, " The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors ", Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996, ISBN 1-56858-066-5
  • Jay M. Gould and Benjamin A. Goldman: ". Deadly Deception radioactivity Low Radiation High Risk ', CH BECK Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-34033-4
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