Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Actually "starting in the 1950s... the amount of radiation workers and the

public has received" has gone UP, dramatically - but still trivial vs.

background. The very idea that there could be a correlation with life

expectancy is ludicrous!? :-)



Good grief!

Regards, Jim



 on 10/4/02 9:18 AM, Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) at jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov

wrote:



> 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)

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> -----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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