Re: Testimony of Steve Wing to US House of Representatives

["dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@email.msn.com>]

Instead of "Correct", I would say "It depends".  If there is a hormetic
effect and the dose was within the optimum dose region you might have been
less likely to have had an adverse effect.  Also, there may be an individual
variation in sensitivity to radiation dose.  For example there is a genetic
trait which makes some people extremely sensative to ionizing radiation.
How would anyone discover a genetic trait that made a person extremely
resistant to ionizing radiation?  I think there are too many unknown
variables to determine what the effect would be at low levels from the type
of studies done on the atomic bomb survivors, workers and radiology
patients.  I think resources spent on the generations of people living in
Ramsaur and Kerala would be more effective.

Also the risk would theoretical risk for others as a result of any actual
results that had showed up in the study group which had included you.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Heinmiller, Bruce" <heinmillerb@aecl.ca>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 11:23 AM
Subject: RE: Testimony of Steve Wing to US House of Representatives


> Correct.
>
> > From: Pambo1@aol.com[SMTP:Pambo1@aol.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 11:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: Testimony of Steve Wing to US House of Representatives
> >
> > I think I understand:
> >
> > If someone is studying me and I have actually gotten a much higher dose
of
> > radiation than the researcher knows, then I am more likely to have
adverse
> > effects but these adverse effects will be attributed to the lower dose
the
> > researcher erroneously believes I got.  Thus, the statistics would
> > overestimate the risk of the lower dose, correct?
> >
> > Pam Gillis Watson



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