[ RadSafe ] Fwd: Is this the beginning of the end of the debate on low-dose radiation health effects?

[Chris Alston]

Hi Mohan

I imagine that Mike implies that not at all, and that he is referring,
with heavy irony, to the likely controversy that would attach to
trialling hormesis in humans.  Offhand, it seems to me that the
radiation oncologists, and their partners in medical oncology, are the
only docs who are well-positioned to propose such trials without a
thunderstorm of controversy, and with some chance of approval by IRB
's.

Best
cja
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From: Doss, Mohan <Mohan.Doss at fccc.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Is this the beginning of the end of the
debate on low-dose radiation health effects?
To: "The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing
List" <radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu>
Dear Mike,
Are you saying that clinical trials to investigate the validity of
radiation hormesis, when there is considerable evidence in human
studies (See http://goo.gl/Vk0H2o), are "crimes against humanity"?
Not testing the validity of radiation hormesis hypothesis when it was
proposed in 1980 based on the faith in the LNT model hypothesis (and
the ensuing policies such as ALARA) was a major deviation from the
scientific method, since one unverified hypothesis was used to prevent
the study of a competing hypothesis, stalling scientific progress.
For details see
http://dose-response.metapress.com/link.asp?id=11h3l8t067886g08.
Since radiation hormesis has survived long-term scrutiny with more
evidence accumulating for it (e.g. 2011 Tubiana study of second
cancers in radiation therapy patients) whereas LNT model has not (as
seen in the recent debate, e.g.),  the misstep by advisory bodies has
likely caused millions in preventable cancer deaths over the past few
decades.
With best regards, Mohan
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Is this the beginning of the end of the
debate on low-dose radiation health effects?
I wasn't thinking of experiments on humans, as there  are all those
"crimes against humanity" aspects that are best avoided.  I would
settle for mice, with the experiment running a half dozen generations
or so.