[ RadSafe ] Collective Dose and Death

[Howard]

Sunshine, 20 min a week for a year to arms and face, is needed, although
30 x that burns, if at one sitting. 
Sunshine, better than aspirin, illustrates inappropriatness of collective dose of ionizing radiation because more similar. Right, Otto?

Howard Long

On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Harry Reynolds <hreynolds at energysolutions.com> wrote:

> Does this mean that the "aspirin analogy" so often used to explain and
> discredit LNT is also invalid?
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> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Collective Dose and Death
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> At 09:44 AM 1/5/2011, Linda Sewell wrote:
>> If 100 people each jump off a 1 foot curb and 1 person jumps off a 100
>> foot "curb" are the health effects the same?
> *****************************************
> This example is for a deterministic phenomenon. It does not apply to 
> a stochastic  phenomenon.
> 
> Otto
>> 
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