[ RadSafe ] howard Long - Fly for radiation hormesis!

[John Jacobus]

Dr. Long,
The effective dose of AP chest x-ray for an adult is
about 2 mrem (0.002 rem)
http://hps.org/documents/meddiagimaging.pdf

Are you still sitting on your bags of KCl ice melting
salt?  I would expect the background exposure rate to
be higher.  

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

> Numbers, Reuven? The airport screen has been said
> here to be less than a chest x-ray (~0.001 rem?) My
> counter here says 0.00001 rem/hr.background. 
>    
>   Viva 10x USA background radiation for better
> health!
>    
>   Howard Long MD MPH (epidemiology and statistics.
>    
>   
> 
> Reuven <reuven99 at newsguy.com> wrote:
>   Fly for radiation hormesis!
> 
> I bet that Mr. H. Long is unfamiliar with the 
> now classic "How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell
> Huff,
> Otherwise he would be more cautious and guarded in
> his
> unequivocal endorsement. [radsafe Digest, Vol 74,
> Issue 10]
> 
> One does not need to resort to the expensive flying
> mode
> of prolonging one's life - A "healthy" (and
> "hefty!") 
> dose of low energy radiation can be currently
> absorbed 
> at the "new" x-ray total body booths at
> the near airport.
> 
> Reuven Zach
> 
> 
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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