Re: Threshold

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/19/2002 9:17:36 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 

jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov writes:



<< The public only hears that two excess cancer

 deaths are the result of the TMI accident.  They do not hear that the normal

 incidence rate is about 1,400 per year.  These are the things the public

 needs to hear.  As you say, "there is no other honorable course."

  >>

Yes, they do hear about the normal incidence of cancer.    No  the problem is 

not "with the LNT" it is with mindless adherebnce to the LNT.  The LNT is a 

theory that doesn't have much evidence to support it, if any. Phlogiston was 

a theoretical concept that was abandoned after a lot of evidence about oxygen 

was obtained.  It's just simply time we stopped invoking the linear 

extrapolation to zero of the relationship between dose and putative cancer.

************************************************************************

You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,

send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the text "unsubscribe

radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.

You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/