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Dear colleagues,
This discussion
is only repetition made time to time in the last decades, probably most of us
know. The disagreements were well studied by anti-nuke and
communicated to public. What was the public reaction? – Asking: “How do we know
whom to trust?” -- This was learned many decades ago, and still
valid.
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 5:55
PM
Subject: RE: dose limits for members of
the public
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
Radiological Engineer
>Having taken over 18 rem in one year without any evidence of harm,
and having come out of it healthier than I went in, I have >no more what
ifs to ask. I can say 5 rem per year does no harm, because my
experience convinces me that the statement is >correct.
My "what if" is "what is everybody doesn't have the same response to
radiation as you do?"
John R Johnson; on my wife
computer!
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