[ RadSafe ] LNT Dogma?

[Franz Schönhofer]

Andy,

i am very well aware of the Wikipedia shortfalls, but since we are dealing 
all the way in our science with probabilities we might also deal with the 
probability that Wikipedia is not necessarily 100% wrong. I do not support 
any anti-nuclear or anti radiation group, just at the contrary I use to 
adress the Greenpeace community as "Greenpiss'"- as it is frequently called 
in Austria.

Sorry, I have already stated that LNT helps to keep radiation legislation 
easly understood and handled.

A personal remark: unfortunately the only time we met personally was in 
Rhodos and I still remember this nice time with not only scientific 
highlights but also a fantastic surrounding which I explored after the 
conference in a rental car.

Best wishes,

Franz



Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
From: KARAM, PHILIP
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 10:35 PM cience
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] LNT Dogma?

The best summation of LNT that I've heard was from a strong LNT proponent 
(sorry - can't remember his name at the moment). In a discussion after some 
presentations he said "LNT is almost certainly wrong, but it makes the 
book-keeping easy."

According to the final arbiter of all knowledge (Wikipedia) "Dogma is a 
principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly 
true. It serves as part of the primary basis of an ideology or belief 
system, and it cannot be changed or discarded without affecting the very 
system's paradigm, or the ideology itself."

LNT is not scientific dogma, but it has effectively become dogma for the 
ALARA philosophy, and near-dogma for regulatory, national, and international 
advisory bodies. And I would say that it is certainly dogma for all of the 
anti-nuclear and anti-radiation groups.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu 
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Franz Schönhofer
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:27 PM
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] LNT Dogma?

RADSAFErs,

Anybody really knows, what a "Dogma" is? Look it up on Google. LNT does not 
fit to this definition. Especially LNT is lively debated and not taken for 
granted by many scientists. Therefore it cannot be called a Dogma. However 
having been a lawmaker I confess, that the concept of LNT has its great 
advantage!!!!! Now load your guns, fill your flaming devices- I`ll be able 
to stand it and anyway I am used to flaming. Compared to Austrian ministery 
intrigues this is a "sweet nothing"!

Best regards!

Franz


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