[ RadSafe ] Is there a threshold for radiation effects?

[Demetrios Okkalides]

I quite agree with you. My qualitative impression from many years of 
hospital work is that indeed the LNT assumption is seriously flawed. 
However, it seems to me that it is not my (our?) obligation to prove that no 
adverse effects exist at low dose-low rate exposures. It should be the 
obligation of the LNT's advocates to prove the opposite.


D.Okkalides
THEAGENEION Anticancer Hospital
Thessaloniki
Greece



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjc105 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Is there a threshold for radiation effects?


> Dr. Edward Calabrese has received much criticism recently for suggesting 
> that
> Muller may have willfully withheld information indicating  the existence 
> dose
> threshold for radiation effects. Muller's research had a strong influence 
> on the
> early BEIR committee recommendations for the assumption of LNT which 
> provided
> the basis for many radiation exposure regulations, primarily ALARA.
>
> http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/10/attack-on-radiation-geneticists.html?ref=wp
>
>
>
> Since Muller is deceased, we may never know what his motivations were, but 
> the
> overwhelming evidence currently available indicates that LNT is a bogus 
> concept.
> Adherence to LNT has caused the needless squandering of billions dollars 
> to
> protect against a nonexistsent risk. There has been much discussion on 
> radsafe
> on this issue. I was wondering whether the recent "revelations" have 
> changed
> anybody's opinion on the subject.
>
> Jerry Cohen
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