Fwd: RE: [ RadSafe ] Re: Serious reporting on Chernobyl - and the LNT

[John Jacobus]

Howard,
Why are you sending this to me?  If you are so
concerned about what the Association of Catholic
Bishops is doing, write to them yourself.  You are a
physician and they need to hear YOUR expert advice.

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:Date: Thu, 3
> Nov 2005 10:48:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: howard long <hflong at pacbell.net>
> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Re: Serious reporting on
> Chernobyl - and the LNT
> To: "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU>
> 
> Jim,
> Wouldn't you be the one to have the best effect
> (with your reference library)
> from forwarding this to the Assoc of Am Cath
> Bishops?
> Howard
> 
> "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> Thank you Ludwig. 
> 
> It has seemed to me that, in addition to
> overestimating the number of thyroid
> cases due to inadequate consideration of the
> "screening effect" of
> identifying normally unidentified occult thyroid
> cancers, the "high dose"
> thyroid cases underestimate the dose due to the
> contribution from the
> short-lived radionuclides generated from the reactor
> excursions that
> generated a large inventory of short-lived
> radionuclides in the process of
> ejecting core materials directly to the environment
> (as reported in UNSCEAR
> 2000 Annex J), plus the question of any continuing
> criticality/fissioning
> during the 10 days of fires.
> 
> Does anyone know of more info on these sources?
> 
> Regards, Jim 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ludwig E. Feinendegen
> [mailto:feinendegen at gmx.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:17 PM
> > To: John Jacobus; hflong at pacbell.net; Muckerheide,
> James
> > Cc: cdn-nucl-l at mailman1.cis.McMaster.CA;
> mbrexchange at list.ans.org;
> > radsafe at radlab.nl; rad-sci-l at WPI.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Serious reporting on
> Chernobyl - and the LNT
> > 
> > Friends:
> > 
> > I think one should realize that the Washington
> Times article sets a
> > rational tune in the discussion on effects after
> Chernobyl. Except for a
> > limited number of thyroid cancers mainly in
> children (high doses) there
> > have not been any indications of elevated cancer
> incidences anywhere in
> > the region.
> 
> > Nor were there congenital malformations - I was in
> Minsk and have
> > discussed this issue with the physicians working
> at the children's
> > hospital there, where malformations are surgically
> treated - indeed very
> > well. Again, no change in incidences of congenital
> malformations after
> > Chernobyl!! 
> 
> > Klaus Becker has clearly reported from Vienna,
> where the latest data were
> > discussed: The virtual number of 4000 malignancies
> due to Chernobyl is a
> > calculated figure and there are no data at all in
> support for this number.
> > 
> > It is deplorable how the well meaning of good
> citizens is being misused.
> > 
> > All the best,
> > Ludwig
> > 
> > Ludwig E. Feinendegen MD
> > Wannental 45
> > 88131 Lindau
> > Germany
> > 
> > Tel: +49 (0) 8382 75673
> > Fax:+49 (0) 8382 947 626
> > e-mail: feinendegen at gmx.net
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Jacobus" 
> > To: ; ; 
> > Cc: ; ;
> > ; 
> > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:26 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Serious reporting on
> Chernobyl - and the LNT
> > 
> > 
> > > Howard,
> > > If you are so concerned, why dont you do it?
> > >


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On Oct. 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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