SEP 22 1969
CALSOYAS HERNDON and ASSOCIATES

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS @ NUCLEAR PHYSICS @ STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

C.D. CALSOYAS, PH.D. 405 FRANCISCO STREET
R.C. HERNDON, PH.D. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
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T.L. CASTANEDA, M.A. TELEPHONE (415) 397-4375
Professor Joshua Lederberg September 20, 1969

Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California

Dear Professor Lederberg:

I refer to my letter of September 19, 1969, and to earlier lettersto
which you have not yet responded, I enclose a copy of my letter of
September 20, 1969, to Secretary Robert Finch, I also referto your
newspaper article dated August 31, 1969, in which you said:

"Dr. Sternglass' arguments are being taken apart, point by point,
in technical publications by Doctors Arthur J, Tamplin of the
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and L. A. Sagan of Palo Alto, and

I must concur with them that his method of analysis is incapable of
yielding anything but imaginative speculations, which the alleged
data neither prove nor disprove,"

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare has stated that

"20a majority of outstanding authorities on radiation biology
shared PHS "reservations! about Sternglass' evidence and
assumptions,"

I would be grateful to have the names of the majority of outstanding
authorities on radiation biology who have publicly stated their opposi-
tion to the Sternglass hypothesis on fetal deaths from radioactive
fallout.

Sincerely,

C.0,EL,~,

C. D. Calsoyas

Copy to Mr. Robert Finch, Secretary, Department of Health, Education
and Welfare
Copy to the Board of Regents, University of California