Re: ABSTRACT

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Jim, Group, 

I've received a few notes that fail to realize that this is an abstract of a
pub'd paper - in the format of a Medline search.  Sorry about any confusion. 
I'll try to add the url in any future dist. In this case:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10783489&dopt=Abstract

But Jim, perhaps you could review the paper instead of blindly trashing it. 
(Med Hypotheses is a long-established medical journal, not an "LNT-science
journal" (kind of like a "creation-science journal"?  :-)  Your reaction
represents your "club" well.

Re your demand for "citations," while I could provide many of my own, you
could just read the paper and see what the authors use.  (There are way too
many solid sources for them to have ref'd them all anyway.)

By the way, there's no "Naginto, Beniti et al 1993" (or any other year) in a
search all of Medline and PubScience literature.  Typo?

(What DOES "Winnemucca" mean?  I have a couple of "hypotheses"  :-)

Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
Radiation, Science, and Health
==============================

Jim Shepherd wrote:
> 
> At 11:35 AM 5/1/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >If anyone gets this paper, please comment, and send a copy.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Regards, Jim
> >muckerheide@mediaone.net
> >Radiation, Science, and Health
> >==============================
> >
> >Med Hypotheses 2000
> >Mar;54(3):461-468
> 
> > Ionizing radiation and mitogenetic radiation: two links of the same
> energetic
> >chain in a biological cell.
> >
> > Goraczko W
> > Radio- and Photochemistry Department, Technical University Poznan, Poznan,
> >Poland
> >
> >Present research demonstrates that the excitation of living systems by high
> >energy/low doses of ionizing radiation (IR) initiates prolonged secondary
> >ultraviolet (UV) range emission that influences biota.
> 
> Actually it produces more in the IR region and below and these may be more
> effective in acheiving change.....
> 
> > When doses of this
> >energy are too high, the process of energy or radiation absorption by the
> >cells causes negative changes (i.e. negative mutations or death). When these
> >doses are sufficiently low, vital processes inside the cells are stimulated
> >and can create positive changes.
> 
> citations??????
> 
> >This paper proposes a common denomination for
> >mechanisms of UV and ionizing radiation when interacting with living cells,
> >underlying both its mitogenetic effect and radiation hormesis. Data from
> radon
> >exposure in chronically exposed nuclear workers, acutely exposed Hiroshima
> and
> >Nagasaki victims and observers of atmospheric nuclear explosions, combined
> >with animal results, present irrefutable evidence that low doses of IR are
> >beneficial.
> 
> Naginto, Beniti, etal 1993 suggest otherwise....
> 
> >As a conclusion the author postulates the possibility of new
> >methods of therapy regarding the use of IR and mitogenetic radiation. This
> >paper has been written to encourage debate regarding possible future benefits
> >that may be derived from low level doses of IR exposure in the general
> >population. (c) 2000 Harcourt Publishers Ltd Copyright 2000 Harcourt
> >Publishers Ltd.
> >
> >
> 
> Nice try. I think you have absorbed more than your allotment of ionizing
> radation... This won't pass peer review.
> Jim Shepherd
> Winnemucca, Nevada
> NVJims@desertlinc.com
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