RE: Columbia U study supports LNT

["Gibbons, Gregory J" <GJGibbon@MAIL.BHI-ERC.COM>]

You're right Norm - the results of a single study often only gain validity

when they are shown to be reproducible; and on the subject of LNT-Hormesis

-- they both have multiple studies supporting them.  That's why the

LNT-Hormesis debate among HPs has been and will likely continue to be an

on-going debate for a long time to come.  In fact, it seems that as the

number of studies performed on this issue increases, the number of possible

scenarios depicting the true dose-response relationship (whatever that might

be) also increases (e.g. LNT, Hormesis, true sigmoidal, sigmoidal-linear,

etc.).



Greg Gibbons



-----Original Message-----

From: Norman Cohen [mailto:ncohen12@comcast.net]

Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:55 AM

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Subject: Re: Columbia U study supports LNT





Hi Sandy,

If I stretched too far, I'll pull the rope back in a bit. Anyway, mainly

posted the article because it was on topic. One study doesn't resolve the

LNT-Hormesis debate any more than all the other postings on radsafe have.



norm



Sandy Perle wrote:



> Looking at the abstract, the study involved alpha particles, and, not

> ALL type of radiation. I have only read the abstract and do not have

> the full study. Norm's leap to make a statement "Columbia U study

> supports LNT" is a bit of a stretch ... a VERY long stretch, by any

> conceivable measure.

>

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