Re: Hormesis and LNT in Today's News

["Health Physics Liberation Front" <hplf@CFU.NET>]

While I agree with the sentiment, that's not as true as we might like to

believe.  Remember Cold Fusion, for one.



We keep wanting to wrap ourselves in the cloak of the scientific method

while retaining the right to street-fight with the best of them.



Wes

hplf@cfu.net



----- Original Message -----

From: "Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>

Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:32 AM

Subject: RE: Hormesis and LNT in Today's News





> I always find it interesting that when a person finds an editorial article

> (not a news or scientific article) that expounds a particular point they

> favor, e.g. gun control, nuclear power, hormesis, DDT, etc., it proves

their

> point.  And if you question the article, you are automatically labeled as

a

> capitalist tool, mafia, etc.  Thankfully, scientific research, not

> regulatory issues, do not following this debating(?) style of name calling

> and "piling on."

>





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