Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation

["Les Aldrich" <laldrich@gte.net>]

John,



In the 1960s, the Supreme Court banned prayer in schools.  Since then, life

expectancy has gone up.  Check it out.



I seriously doubt that the reduction in allowable dose limits had anything

more to do with the increase in life expectancy than the prayer ban did.

It's more likely that a huge improvement in the medical sciences since the

1950s caused the improvement in life expectancy in the last 50 years.



Les Aldrich, CHP

laldrich@gte.net



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

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

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:18 AM

Subject: 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





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