[ RadSafe ] Calculated Health Impacts of Reducing NaturalBackground Ionizing Radiation

[John Jacobus]

Jim,
Is there any evidence of a health worker effect in
other industries?  

If so, then are you then say that the healthy worker
effect is not a valid conclusion to studies of
radiation workers?

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> Bobby,
> 
> I'd also add that the epi studies of rad workers are
> not really "poorly
> designed" so much as that they simply denying the
> reality of the results.
> The epi's have NO recognition of biology, and they
> are biased by their
> funding sources to believe that any radiation dose
> must be harmful. 
> 
> The toughest problem was the most definitive nuclear
> shipyard worker study
> designed to have NO healthy worker effect, but they
> have to claim the HWE in
> order to avoid admitting that LDR reduces cancer. 
> Since that was such a
> problem, the study was not published so it has never
> been subject to formal
> review, so the HWE claim has not been able to be
> challenged.  
> 
> Since then, most human studies, especially the
> nuclear worker studies are
> designed to compare workers to the general
> population to be able to claim the
> HWE.  It would, of course be easy to compare power
> plant nuclear workers to
> power company non-nuclear workers.  But... :-) 
> 
> Note that these same epi experts concluded
> (correctly), in advice to the
> gov't of Canada, in 1988, that cancer can not be
> significantly affected by
> the HWE (caused by the age-dependence of cancer, and
> the latency of cancer).
> Of course, there is an excess of cancer over the
> general population in
> workers that are actually exposed to carcinogenic
> conditions!
> 
> Regards, Jim 
> ==========
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of
> > Scott, Bobby
> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:47 PM
> > To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Subject: [ RadSafe ] Calculated Health Impacts of
> Reducing
> NaturalBackground
> > Ionizing Radiation
> > 
> > Related to writing a chapter entitled "Radiation
> Hormesis and the
> > Control of Genomic Instability" for a Nova Science
> Publishers, Inc. book
> > with the tentative title "New Research on Genomic
> Instability," I now
> > have some new modeling results that led to the
> following conclusions:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 1.  Reducing current natural background ionizing
> radiation to near zero
> > would be expected to lead to significant increases
> in cancer and other
> > genomic instability associated diseases as well as
> increased mortality
> > from these diseases.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 2. A significant reduction in life expectancy
> would therefore be
> > expected to be associated with reducing natural
> background ionizing
> > radiation to near zero.
> > 
> > 
> > 

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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
Titus Livius
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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