Re: The Secret Word - a possible answer

[jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET]

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Nick,

    Your suggestion is good, but it won't work. Why?  Because:

[1] It would be impossible to PROVE absence of harmful effects at

low dose levels. You can't prove a negative!

[2] The abundant evidence that already exists predominantly INDICATES

that low doses of radiation are harmless or possibly beneficial.

[3] This evidence has been ignored by official standard setting

organizations

largely because it does not absolutely PROVE that low dose radiation

exposures produce no harmful effects.

[4] It would appear that we are in a "Catch 22" situation.



    Why should yet another study seem credible to them????

 jjcohen@prodigy.net



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From: Tsurikov, Nick <nick.tsurikov@ILUKA.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 3:55 PM

Subject: The Secret Word - a possible answer





> Hello, Radsafers

>

> It seems to me that we are back to where we were 2-5-10 etc. years ago...

>

> From my personal point of view one of possible ways to credibly

> prove/disprove the validity of LNT is a MAJOR epidemiological study

> addressing possible effects of radiation exposure in 'non-nuclear'

> industries.  There were, are and will be much more workers in these

> industries receiving doses of the same magnitude as "nuclear" workers, and

> much more than dentists, radiographers, etc.; and a study of this kind

would

> not be such a problem (at least that's how it looks from here).

> So, I was wondering - there are so many universities, government

> departments, research institutions and nobody thought about that...?

>

> Just my personal thoughts...

>

> Kind regards

> Nick Tsurikov

> Eneabba, Western Australia

> http://eneabba.net/ <http://eneabba.net/>





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