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RE: Hormesis again?
Jim,
Since you asked, here are some thoughts on this new item.
Item: Microwave radiation used
Increased fertility in nematodes
Progeny are 10 larger.
Questions:
1. What is the mechanism? Genetic changes? Hormonal?
2. What are the long term effects? Early Death? Are there developmental
abnormalities that may not be evident at the current investigational levels?
3. Are the effects reversible? If you stop irradiating with microwaves, do
fertility levels and size return to pre-irradiation levels? Does it drop
due to affects on the immediate progeny, leading to smaller populations and
size in future generations?
4. What are the effects of continuous irradiation over several generations?
Mutations or developmental abnormalities (both good and bad) that increase
in each future generation?
5. In the natural or social sphere(?), are more nematodes a good idea?
Less food for the individual ones?
6. And, of course, what does this mean to humans and other higher life
forms.
And, as Michael Clark, of the National Radiological Protection Board said,
"However good it is, it needs to be replicated elsewhere." I am always
skeptical of single study results.
Again, an interesting article that I am glad you could pass along. You
obviously have more time to search for this information than I do.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Muckerheide [mailto:jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:18 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Hormesis again?
Friends,
Please see:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991889
Comments?
Regards, Jim Muckerheide
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