Re: Dr. Lubin's response to Drs. Cohen and Isenhower.

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@prodigy.net>]

Otto,
    Your point is well stated.  Of course a key consideration  that follows
is that if  LNT is an invalid concept,  it would logically appear  that  the
concept of  collective dose is also invalid , and   the whole business of
ALARA is also bogus.       How about that?           jjcohen@prodigy.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Otto G. Raabe <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 05, 2000 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Dr. Lubin's response to Drs. Cohen and Isenhower.


>March 5, 2000
>Davis, CA
>
>The point that Dr. Cohen had made and that Dr. Lubin seems to have missed
>is that under LNT it is NOT necessary to know the risk or exposure for any
>individual. This is because under LNT it makes no difference to the overall
>population risk how the dose is distributed in a group of people. Hence,
>under LNT average population doses should relate to radiation risk. That's
>why some folks try to estimate population risks using collective dose, such
>as person-sieverts. This is important for understanding Dr. Cohen's test of
>LNT by using county population data rather than individual data.
>
>Otto
>
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