[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: LNT - HP education
Dan Burnfield wrote:
>
> Funny at Georgia Tech they still put the right spin on LNT. I wonder what schools you are talking about.
Like one 'Admiral' in the PHS responding to a scientist trying explain the
lack of effects at low-doses by responding: "I know the LNT is true because I
was taught that at the Harvard School of Public Health!" Brainwashing for big
bucks for the revolving army of bureaucrats!
And when was this? And did it include the LDR-stimulation of immune response,
the healing of wounds, prevention and elimination of infections and cancer,
increased longevity, growth, fecundity, etc. etc., before, during, and after
the Manhattan Project? Recent successfully treatment of cancer in Japan and
the US (but can't get funding or medical approvals to apply treatments?
conduct formal studies? clinical trials)?
See, e.g., and number of sources at:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/
and
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Docs/index.html
A lot more specific data sources are not yet on the web site :-)
One of many other sources I've noted in the past that is a "visual
demonstration" of the typical response of plants and animals to LDR (unless
already near optimum conditions):
http://hanaro.kaeri.re.kr/hanews10/news10-5.htm
We did this with the Mass. Teachers group at the UMass Lowell reactor. I just
heard from a seventh grader who stimulated growth of paramecia with x-rays for
his science fair (at 1.0 and 0.5 of an x-ray dose at his local hospital :-)
He's going on to the state finals! :-)
Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
========================
> Dan Burnfield, CHP PE
>
> Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
> 625 Indiana Ave, NW Ste. 700
> Washington, DC 20004
>
> Tel: 202.694.7113
> Fax: 202.208.6518
> Email danb@dnfsb.gov
>
> >>> Al Tschaeche <antatnsu@pacbell.net> 03/17/00 07:15PM >>>
> See comments below.
>
> Kjell Johansen wrote:
>
> > If HP education now includes LNT as gospel as Jim Muckerheide states,
> > things have really changed over the years. I was taught that LNT was a
> > conservative model of dose response to be used for radiation protection
> > purposes until further knowledge was obtained at low doses. Of course,
> > that was back in the '60s. Somehow over the years it appears that LNT
> > has gone from a working hypothesis deemed to be conservative to
> > something akin to "fact" in spite of confounding data which is dismissed
> > because it does not fit the LNT paradigm.
>
> That is exactly what has happened. It happened IMHO because knowledgeable
> people did not correct every time statements that changed the "may" in "low
> doses may cause harm" to "will." So the statement read: "Low doses will
> cause harm." We have let the lie persist until it is now perceived as the
> truth. You are very perceptive to have seen this. Al Tschaeche
> antatnsu@pacbell.net
>
> > As Ken Mossman wrote
> > (Trivialization of Radiation Hormesis, SSI News, 2/99, page 15) "What we
> > are experiencing is a situation where any alternative theory to LNT is
> > either completely ignored or is subject to a higher standard of
> > scientific proof."
> >
> > As always, just my own thoughts and not necessarily those of my
> > employer.
> >
> > Kjell Johansen
> > Wisconsin Electric Power Company
> > Milwaukee
> > kjell.johansen@wepco.com
> > ************************************************************************
> > The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
> > information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html
>
> ************************************************************************
> The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
> information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html
> !
> !
>
> ************************************************************************
> The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
> information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html
************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html