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And if
frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their butts. Not everyone has the same
response to aspirin, aspartame, arsenic, or asininity either. But we don't have
government-prescribed ALARA to them. No one is required to accept occupational
dose. It's generally better to operate from what we do know than from what we
don't. I know that high levels of arsenic will kill me; I don't have to
experience it to know that--I have reasonable inference from those who have done
it. I know that low levels of aspirin will help me. Having had no known
detriment to aspartame, I ingest it, but if I experienced anecdotal evidence
that it were causing me harm, I wouldn't need a scientific study to convince me.
A convincing scientific study could, however, cause me to avoid it even lacking
personal evidence. I also know that high levels of asininity irritate me, so I
minimize my exposure to it. All without the EPA telling me
to.
Jack Earley
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