[ RadSafe ] Cohen's radon results and LNT

[Steven Dapra]

Oct. 4

         I hear and will obey. Chris the Magnificent has spoken.

Steven Dapra


At 02:45 AM 10/3/2011, you wrote:
>Because the fallout does not go to the tropics, it stays in the N 
>hemisphere temperate latitudes due to the equatorial heating. Learn 
>some meteorology. Check the global fallout maps.
>C
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Steven Dapra
>Sent: Mon 03/10/2011 03:19
>To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Cohen's radon results and LNT
>
>Oct. 2, 2011
>
>          Once again, Busby cites himself.  If high rainfall equals a
>high cancer rate, why aren't all the residents of tropical regions
>dying of cancer or already dead?
>
>          A mountain in Hawaii has averaged over 460 inches of rain
>per year for the last 32 years.  Why haven't we heard about all the
>cancer deaths there?  Perhaps it's a "vast right-wing
>conspiracy."  (Thanks, Hilary.)
>
>          See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain (sect. 7.6) for
>examples of areas which receive even more rain than the location in Hawaii.
>
>Steven Dapra
>
>
>At 11:42 AM 10/2/2011, you wrote:
> >Plenty of evidence there. Not a joke. High Rainfall = high fallout =
> >high cancer rate. See
> >Busby, C. (1994), `Increase in Cancer in Wales Unexplained', British
> >Medical Journal, 308: 268.
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Otto G. Raabe
> >Sent: Sat 01/10/2011 22:33
> >To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> >Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Cohen's radon results and LNT
> >
> >At 06:15 AM 10/1/2011, Chris Busby
> > >Its some time since I looked at this but I recall that the problem
> > >was that no one has looked at weapons fallout and rainfall.
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> >IS THIS A JOKE?
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