[ RadSafe ] Bobby Scott, low dose radiation therapy

[John Jacobus]

Was any of this work done in humans?

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

> Health Physicists and Radiation Scientists,
>    
>   Bobby Scott here points out that low dose gamma
> radiation treatment (presumably 100mSv to 1,000 mSv
> or 20 to 200 times usual background and up to 1/4
> the LD50) seems beneficial not only to mitigate
> damage from higher dose radiation, but also to treat
> other "genotoxic" damage. This reminds me of the 75
> rem treatments of gangrene reported by Jerry Cuttler
> (Candu man) here and at Doctors for Disaster
> Preparedness meetings.
>    
>   Re-establish low-dose radiotherapy! 
>   Contact Bobby Scott for attachments (not permitted
> on  lists).
>   The next DDP meeting is in Phoenix, next summer.
>   Howard Long
>   
> 
> "Scott, Bobby" <BScott at lrri.org> wrote:
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>  Dear Howard:
>    
>   I have attached a pdf of the slides for my talk on
> “Low-Level Radiation and Health” which includes
> backup slides. Please feel free to pass it on to
> others who have interest.  Slides are arranged from
> left to right.  I am providing a cc to others from
> your e-mail list in case they may like to have a
> copy of the pdf version that I circulated at the
> Oakland meeting (only had a small number copies at
> the meeting).  I am also attaching a paper by Tanya
> Day et al. (2007) that describes chromosomal
> inversions data from Pamela Sykes group in Australia
> that confirmed my prediction that a small harmless
> dose of X-rays could suppress mutations associated
> with an earlier high dose or radiation (or other
> genotoxic agents). Cancers associated with high
> level exposure to genotoxic agents (including
> chemicals) can be suppressed in a similar manner
> including with use of low-dose, low-rate gamma rays
> (see page 7, row 2, slide 1 in the attached pdf file
> of my talk related to Kazou Sakai’s
>  study for skin cancer suppression).   I am also
> attaching a recent publication on polonium-210
> (Po-210) toxicity (Scott 2007) in case it may be of
> interest in light of the November 2006 Po-210
> poisoning incident in London involving Mr. Alexander
> Litvinenko.
>    
>   I agree that the DDP meeting was a great meeting!
>    
>   Bobby R. Scott
>    
>   Hidden DDP Goodies
>     These inconspicuous contributions from the
> Oakland Doctors for Disaster preparedness meeting
> Aug 4,5  2007, are easily overlooked.
> 
>      
> 
>     Howard Maccabee’s 6 p Critique of Global Warming
> Exaggerations, is a handout more easily studied than
> a lecture. it references discrepancies (most
> notably, maximum sea rise of 17” by 2100) and 10
> Ways to Adapt, concluding, “- careful analysis
> indicates that warming will have positive benefits
> overall.”  You will be glad you dug it out of the
> plethora of goodies in the blue folder.
> 
>      
> 
>     Bobby Scott’s  11 pp (6 slides each) about Low
> Level Radiation and Health should be attached to
> e-mail on-line. Bobby, would you scan that for
> persons receiving this, plus expected requests on
> Radsafe?  Bobby said he would want MORE radiation
> after an injurious amount, contrary to standard
> practice (perhaps 100 mSv, days after ~2,000 mSv as
> from a bomb?). 
> 
>      
> 
>     George Gilder responded, “The Internet!” (when
> asked how we can reform entrenched establishments).
> He also displayed Art Robinson’s Access to Energy
> newsletter from his pocket, credited with info to
> win a global warming debate.. 
> 
>      
> 
>     Art Robinson gave each of the ~ 170 DDP
> attendees a 35 Year, Fully Searchable  Archive  DVD
> of  those AE newsletters, Kearny’s  $19.50 book
> Nuclear War Survival Skills and a Kearney Fallout
> Meter (practical for a 12 year old to assemble,
> retail $200). His, Revolutionizing 21st Century
> Medicine with Consumer Based Diagnostics and the
> Internet was in the blue folder and  concluded,
> “Destruction of the medical monopoly and its
> replacement by individual-based high technology
> [like metabolic profiling] must take place.” Read
> it. You’ll like it!
> 
>      
> 
>     Stephen Jones (“Survival Skills”) saved
> Nukalert, raising $1,000,000 and benefited Otto
> Raabe (“Internal Radiation Dosimetry”) among others.
> 
> 
>      
> 
>     “Frisky” Bruce Ames most attracted my 2 children
> (who promote supplements and want the DVD showing
> his detailed slides). His 156 reference handout is
> another hidden DDP goody in the blue folder.
> 
>      
> 
>     Jane Orient has 2 writings in the blue folder,
> direct to DDP's mission. "Will Arizona Be Ready?"
> from AzMedicine, states, "The intention of
> terrorists is to produce maximum casualties and
> maximum terror and disruption. The result- of
> complacency, ignorance and lack of preparedness is
> to help terrorists succeed". Her article from the
> AAPS Journal, Homeland Security for Physicians
> begins, "The apparent strategy of the US federal
> government, in the event of the use of nuclear
> weapons on American soil is to provide for
> 'continuity of government' while civilians largely
> tend to themselves." 
> 
>     Her 5 pages are an excellent summary of how.
> Don't miss it.
> 
>      
> 
>     Great meeting.
> 
>     Howard Long
> 
> 
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


       
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