New Peter Parsons paper

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET>]

Friends,



FYI. Please tell your colleagues and others of the following excellent

brief paper by Dr. Peter Parsons! (Why does it take 50 weeks from accept

to ELECT pub!? :-)  See .pdf ref below.



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Radiation hormesis: an ecological and energetic perspective



Medical Hypotheses, 2001 Sep;57(3):pp. 277-279

P. A. Parsons   

School of Genetics and Human Variation, LaTrobe University, Victoria,

Australia   

(Received June 27, 2000; accepted September 5, 2000; published

electronically August 21, 2001)



Abstract 

Organisms in natural habitats are exposed to an array of environmental

stresses, which all have energetic costs. Under this ecological

scenario, hormesis for ionizing radiation becomes an evolutionary

expectation at exposures substantially exceeding background. This

conclusion implies that some relaxation of radiation protection criteria

is worthy of serious consideration. Copyright 2001 Harcourt Publishers

Ltd 

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You can retrieve the pdf file for review at:

http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Parsons01MedHyp-Hormesis.pdf





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Thank you. Have (Hope you had) a good weekend! :-)



Regards, Jim Muckerheide



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