AW: [ RadSafe ] Re: "Science" reports on background radiation andhealth

[Muckerheide, James]

That it doesn't make any difference what it 'sounds like' but what the
content is.  That would not be in "Science" if the author could not have
substantiated it whether the editors required endnotes or not.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
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> From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:32 PM
> 
> And you point is . . .?
>
> 
> --- Rainer.Facius at dlr.de wrote:
> 
> > John:
> >
> > 	It is the contents and not the sound that counst!
> >
> > Regards, Rainer
> >
> > Dr. Rainer Facius
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> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> > [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag von
> > John Jacobus
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 15:38
> > An: Maury Siskel; Muckerheide, James
> > Cc: cdn-nucl-l at mailman1.cis.mcmaster.ca;
> > mbrexchange at list.ans.org; radsafe
> > Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: "Science" reports on
> > background radiation andhealth
> >
> > And what is the paradox? What is important are
> > results of epidemiological studies of the
> > populations.  The statement that ". . . appear to be
> > even healthier and to live longer than those living
> > in control  areas that are not classified as HBRAs .
> > . ." does not sound like a scientific statement to
> > me.  I remember years ago where a study showing that
> > people who lived in the Caucasus Mountains lived
> > longer because they ate yogart.  Actually, it is
> > glacial milk. not background radiation.
> >
> > See
> > http://www.lifebuildingminerals.com/longevity.htm
> >
> > As noted in the BEIR V, BEIR VII, UNSCEAR and other
> > reports, biological response from low dose, low-dose
> > rates differ from those of high dose rate exposures.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Maury Siskel <maurysis at ev1.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Many Radsafe readers would find the linked article
> > in Science an
> > > intriguing account. But I agree that when you come
> > to the section
> > > about "The Radiation Paradox", your ears will
> > stand up -- Dog's did
> > > when I read it to him. <g> Cheers, Maury&Dog
> > >
> > > ====================
> > > Muckerheide, James wrote:
> > >
> > > > Friends,
> > > >
> > > > An essay on 'medical geology' in the current
> > > Science magazine includes
> > > > the following section. The article is at:
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5736/883
> > >
> > > . . .
> > > >
> > > > The most interesting feature in all these cases
> > is
> > > that the people
> > > > living in these HBRAs do not appear to suffer
> > any
> > > adverse health
> > > > effects as a result of their high exposures to
> > > radiation. On the
> > > > contrary, in some cases the individuals living
> > in
> > > these HBRAs appear
> > > > to be even healthier and to live longer than
> > those
> > > living in control
> > > > areas that are not classified as HBRAs. These
> > > phenomena pose many
> > > > intriguing questions for medical geologists.
> > > >
> >
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++
> > "Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a
> > new idea and never shrinks back to its original
> > proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
> >
> > -- John
> > John Jacobus, MS
> > Certified Health Physicist
> > e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
> >
> >
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> 
> +++++++++++++++++++
> "Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never
> shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
> 
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
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