Re: Experimental Proof of Hormesis

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> The current thread on hormesis on RADSAFE seems to imply that there is
> no valid experimental confirmation.  Well, that is what the Linear
> Mafia wants you to think!  Fortunately, wanting it does not make it
> so.  That is why that same Linear Mafia has hurled all kinds of
> 'bombs' at the Shipyard worker study and at Bernie Cohen's study of
> the Radon/Lung cancer mortality correlation.

Good comments Fritz. Interesting hyperbole. As in war, there are 
factions who have much $$ to be made by promulgating their 
beliefs and promoting their agendas. LNT = $$$. Until we take the 
$$$ out of science, these arguments will go on forever. Many have 
made their careers based on promoting mis-information.

I am not saying that all radiation is good for you, as some have 
suggested. I for one do not question the negative affects of 
exposure to high dose. There is evidence that at very high dose, 
people are injured and do die. But to use that data and interpolate 
to low doses is a big stretch.

Regards,
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