title: Debate on the Chernobyl disaster: response to Dr. Sergei V. Jargin.
abstract: The author responds, point by point, to Dr. Jargin's critique in this Journal issue of A. V. Yablokov, V. B. Nesterenko, and A. B. Nesterenko, Chernobyl: consequences of the catastrophe for people and the environment, published in 2009 by the New York Academy of Sciences.
authors.affiliation: Russian Marine Mammals Council. alexey.ablokov@gmail.com
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yablokov
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D006801:Humans; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*