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[John Jacobus]

Mike,
Very thoughful and well stated comments.

--- "Stabin, Michael"
<michael.g.stabin at Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:

> 
> For starters, both the Radsafe list and the poll
> are, as we all know,
> not representative samplings of the radiation
> protection, scientific, or
> other communities. I, for one, did not vote because
> my mind is truly
> open on the subject and I don't "favor" any
> particular model. I think
> any honest scientist must say that there is enough
> evidence for several
> competing theories and a lack of understanding of
> the biological
> mechanisms and proposed models that we will not know
> for some time what
> may be happening at low doses and dose rates. I
> listened to the BEIR
> group's defense of their work at the HPS meeting,
> and it was pretty
> reasonable, given what they were working with in the
> way of data and
> what their charge and audience were. I don't agree
> with every part of
> their conclusions, but I found their position to be
> defensible. I
> certainly reject the ideas of conspiracy theories
> advocated by some on
> this list, for the BEIR, ICRP, NCRP, and other
> groups. I thought that
> Feinendegen modeled better than anyone I have seen a
> way to approach the
> data and models in a way that may advance our
> understanding and lead to
> some consensus. People with their heels dug in
> either for or against one
> model or theory do not advance the discussion,
> particularly when
> aspersions are cast at members of other "camps".
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological
> Sciences 
> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 
> Vanderbilt University 
> 1161 21st Avenue South
> Nashville, TN 37232-2675 
> Phone (615) 343-0068
> Fax   (615) 322-3764
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> e-mail     michael.g.stabin at vanderbilt.edu 
> internet   www.doseinfo-radar.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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