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RE: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation
Les,
This is part of my point. Are two pieces of data linked? Is the fact that
increased immune response at low doses lead to a reduction in cancer
incidence? Does living near a nuclear power plant increase cancer risk?
We are becoming a society obsessed with concerns about risk and overwhelmed
by data. I think it is too easy to dismiss contradictions by say "well,
this piece of data show . . ." Yet, when I read what is written with a
critical eye, like the Calabrese and Baldwin article, I may come away a
different perspective. But is it less valid?
I guess I am trying to put into print what I am thinking about, and to
elicit thoughts by others on the list.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Les Aldrich [mailto:laldrich@gte.net]
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:57 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation
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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