Re: radiation paranoia

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

Don,
    Philosophically, I agree with you, but apparently we are in the
minority. Stop me if I am wrong, but aren't ALARA, and most other policies
in Health Physics directed toward control of the non-discernable effects of
low-dose radiation exposure? It seems to me that any society consumed in
worry about all the things that MIGHT be harmful, would eventually become
totally paranoid. So how should we pick and choose which risks we need to
control?

-----Original Message-----
From: dkosloff1 <dkosloff1@email.msn.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 27, 2001 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: Children may get too much radiation in CT scan


>If an effect is not statistically discernable and there is no direct
>evidence that something causes an effect, how do we know that there is an
>effect?  If a tree doesn't fall in the forest when no one is there to hear
>it does it make a sound?   What is the sound of no hands clapping?
>
>Don Kosloff dkosloff1@msn.com
>2910 Main St. Perry OH 44081
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@prodigy.net>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:36 AM
>Subject: Re: Children may get too much radiation in CT scan
>
>
>> <In addition, this new view of the scenario doesn't change the fact that
>it
>> will be difficult (if not impossible) to detect a change of 500 cancer
>> fatalities in such a large population>
>>
>> Does this mean that any effect that is not statistically discernable
>   should  be of no concern?
>
>
>
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