RE: 'Voting with feet' for/against Low vs. Hi Dose Rad! :-)

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Goodness!  Stewart, you're dyslexic, too.



-- John 

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From: SAFarberMSPH@cs.com [mailto:SAFarberMSPH@cs.com]

Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:39 PM

To: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS); radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: 'Voting with feet' for/against Low vs. Hi Dose Rad! :-)





John: 

Nothing I wrote in my note implied that insects were responding to radiation

fields and not some byproduct of radiation interaction such as ozone due to

ionization of air. 



Also, you seem to be suffering from "humor impairment" if you couldn't see

my comment about the Readers Digest being a respected radiation effects

journal back in the 1950s was facetious. 



I remember hearing a commentary on National Public Radio that determining if

you were humor impaired could be determined by a persons response to the

following question: 



Q: "What does a dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac do?" 

A: They lay awake all night, worrying if there is a dog. 



Scoring: 

1) If you laugh immediately on reading above, you are not humor impaired 

2) If you laugh after having it explained, there's hope 

3) If you don't see the humor after the question is explained, you're humor

impaired. 



Have a good weekend also and don't lose any sleep pondering great questions

like the existance of a dog. 



Stewart Farber 

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In a message dated 5/31/02 12:00:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov writes: 







Subj:RE: 'Voting with feet' for/against Low vs. Hi Dose Rad! :-) 

Date:5/31/02 12:00:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time 

From:    jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov (Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)) 

Sender:    owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

Reply-to: jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov (Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)) 

To:    radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 









Stewart, 

I take it that you believe that insects can detect radiation and not a 

byproduct of the radiation.  As the abstract Jim sent, the removal of the 

woodlice antenna, i.e., olfactory organ, eliminated the response to the 

radiation.  Also, I never considered the Readers' Digest to be a reliable 

scientific journal. 



Have a nice weekend. 

-- John 

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