[ RadSafe ] Article by Vincent Giuliano on "Radiation Hormesis"

[Howard Long]

Benefit, not just absence of harm, may be needed to win public support:  Vitamin R.
Cameron (NSWS), B.Cohen (radon and lung ca mortality) and Taiwan apt studies do give impressive epidemiologic evidence of benefit. 
Pollycove did show benefit from added radiation (mouse experiments).
I spoke with him this AM and hope he will "supply ammunition" here.

Politically, is there any way to remove regulations and regulators - 
and require that harm/benefit>1 be shown for new ones? Market choice 
 does give safer medical care (measured by ER and Hospital use)
 than "evidence based" dictates from a distance, as by The Secretary.
(I will e mail evidence from my own PCPPR to any doubter wishing such).

Could individual choice of radiation dose ( like my sittting on thoriated welding rods)
give LESS cancer and mortality than forcing generalized regulations on all?
How about voluntarily posted levels of radiation as an attraction to homes and farms?
I would pay extra to live in a home with the vitamin R benefit  some Taiwanese enjoyed!
(Is Chronic Radiation an Effective Prophylaxis Against Cancer? Chen et al
www.aapsonline.org/journal  winter 2004)

Howard Long

On Jan 30, 2013, at 4:06 PM, "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen at prodigy.net> wrote:

> Otto,
>   Given that there are billions of people on the earth, and that you can take as much time as you want to do the study, I believe that sooner or later, you might observe some adverse effect of exposure to 15 mrem/a. But then you couldn't be certain that this couldn't happen at 10 mrem/a, or any other level >o. What we need is some criterion to determine "How much is too much?"
> Jerry Cohen
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen at prodigy.net>
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> 
>> More to the point---How do you convince EPA that setting rational standards will not adversely affect their importance and/or funding levels
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe at ucdavis.edu>
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>>> So, now how do we convince EPA that 15 mrem per year (the expensive super fund cleanup standard) is not hazardous?
>>> 
>>> Otto
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