[ RadSafe ] howard Long - Fly for radiation hormesis!

[John Jacobus]

Maybe Dr. Long should just lie down and be passed
through a baggage screening unit.  It would be cheaper
than buying a airplane ticket.


--- Ruth Sponsler <jk5554 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Re: Backscatter x-ray machines - 
> 
> Manufacturer info states that the dose from these
> machines is very low - 0.1 microSv/scan and is about
> 1/100 of one day's natural background dose.
> 
>
http://www.as-e.com/products_solutions/tsa_z_backscatter_pilot.asp
> 
> Even the baggage screening machines are quite
> low-dose
> - check the links for rates:
> 
>
http://0-www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/niosh/topics/airportscreener/pdf/TSAInterimReport2.pdf
> 
>
http://0-www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/niosh/topics/airportscreener/faqxray.html
> 
> Merry Christmas!
> 
> ~Ruth
> 
> 
> --- 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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On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline 
rationing, beginning December 1.   

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

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