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RE: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation



I guess you missed the point.  Since regulations starting in the 1950s have

reduced the amount of radiation workers and the public can receive, the life

expectancy has gone up.  Check it out.  



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



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

From: Muckerheide [mailto:muckerheide@attbi.com]

Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:59 PM

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

Subject: Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation





on 10/3/02 11:20 AM, Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) at jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov

wrote:



> As a counter argument, I could say that since we do not have stresses like

> malnutrition, malaria, smallpox, typhoid, etc., we do like longer.  Of

> course, less radiation through regulations have also increased our life

> span, which has been going up since the end of the 19th century.  Check

out

> the facts.



Un-bleeping-believable !!!???   This "non-science" is a joke, right?  :-)



> Yes, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

. . .

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