[ RadSafe ] Fwd: French Academie des Sciences

[Muckerheide, James]

Hi John,  

I'm sending the paper separately.  My corrupt copy was kindly replaced! :-)

Others can let me know if you want it for review.

Regards, Jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:20 AM
> To: Muckerheide, James; Richard L. Hess; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Cc: RuthWeiner at aol.com
> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: French Academie des Sciences
> 
> Jim,
> Thanks for the update.  However, what is the reference
> for the Tubiana/Aurengo paper?  My interests still
> remain health physics, radiation science and medical
> physics, so I would not follow a lot of the
> radiobiology literature.  I am sure that if something
> really important involving the LNT or hormesis had
> come out, it would have made the scientific journals,
> like Nature or Science.
> 
> Nevertheless, I will see about getting the second
> reference in Radiation Environmental Biophysics.
> 
> --- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > Hi John,
> >
> > If you were up to date on the literature you would
> > know that the paper is
> > from last year, but the Tubiana/Aurengo paper is
> > more recent. :-)
> >
> > I didn't think they were the same.  I just opened my
> > PDF of their paper (Oct
> > 05, but I think the issue was late coming out) and
> > the PDF is corrupted. :-(
> >
> > There is a later brief paper by them (with D.
> > Averbeck and Roland Masse), in
> > a "debate" format with a brief paper by Dave Brenner
> > and Rainer Sachs
> > defending the LNT (referring to BEIR VII!?)  It was
> > online-before-print in
> > Radiat. Environ. Biophys. about a month ago.
> >
> > Regards, Jim
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> > [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> > > Behalf Of John Jacobus
> > > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 4:29 PM
> > > To: Richard L. Hess; radsafe at radlab.nl
> > > Cc: RuthWeiner at aol.com
> > > Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: French Academie des
> > Sciences
> > >
> > > If Ruth was subscribing to RadSafe, she would have
> > > know that this is an old news story that appeared
> > a
> > > year ago.  I would hesitate to add that no changes
> > > have been initiated thus far to relax any
> > dosimetry
> > > limits.
> > >
> > >
> 
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> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
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