Re: Why effects of LDR differ from metabolism

[Jke310@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 10/29/01 4:05:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov writes:



> I was taught that biological
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> response is usually a spectrum of values, and in the regulatory arena, you
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> protect for the sensitive person, not the average or those at one end of the
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> spectrum of responses. 


Is this the same reasoning that supports the concept that "if it saves even one life, isn't it worth the cost?"?


Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer