Fw: "Hormetic" responses are intrinsic to biology

["John Jacobus" <jenday1@MSN.COM>]

Jim,

You missed my point.  The charge was made that human research studies were

suppressed.  They were not, but may have found their way into obscure

reports or reported in old scientific and medical journals.



First, why would the NRC investigate the Charlie Willis' allegations?  Was

the meeting he spoke at an investigative session on misconduct, or was his

allegation peripheral to the main purpose his presentation?  Maybe he

comments were one of the issues that lead to the funding of NCRP 136,

although I do not remember that K-40 cell experiments being identified in

it?  (More suppression or non-relevant?)



If you do have the transcript, please send it to me at my work address.  I

have never accused you of sending false information.  I only say that after

reading the original text, I choose to disagree with your conclusion in the

context of your political agenda.  I will try to get a copy from the NRC,

but it may take a while.



I certainly cannot make any statements about your claims of government and

regulatory suppression of data, or the individuals involved.  I do notice a

twing of bitterness in that the scientific committees do not accept your

conclusions on the relevance of the data you present.  (However, you were

referenced in NCRP 136, so I guess they did review the some of your

submitted material.  If they had accepted the claims, I am sure your view of

the NCRP would be different.  Such is life.)



As for relevant DOE research, I believe they are conducting epidemiological

studies of the Myank (sp?) workers in Russia.  From a human standpoint, this

should be very interest.



-- John



John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD 20715-2024

jenday1@email.msn.com (H)







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

From: "Muckerheide" <muckerheide@attbi.com>

To: "John Jacobus" <jenday1@MSN.COM>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:39 AM

Subject: Re: "Hormetic" responses are intrinsic to biology

. . .

1. The Argonne 1980s work was/is pub'd (with Oak Ridge and non-Oak Ridge

K-39 sources)



2. The Oak Ridge 1950s-60s studies were/are suppressed!



>As you may remember, there were charges

> during the that experimental studies on humans were "suppressed."

> Now you can find the information on the Web at

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/.



An investigation shows whether they were or were not suppressed!? (Most

cases show they were not suppressed, contrary to the anti's, but NOT because

they are uncovered by an investigation.)  NRC wouldn't "investigate" Charlie

Willis' allegations. But, if they were uncovered/reported now it wouldn't

mean that they weren't suppressed.



> The real question is the relevancy to (1) scientific study and (2)

regulations.

> I try to keep the two separated, like common sense and laws passed by

> Congress.

>

> As for the NRC site, it is impossible to find any information that before

> 1998.  You cannot access archived material.  Even then, you have to know

how

> it is filed.  As an exercise in futility, check it out.  If you have any

> other information, like dates or report names, let me know.  It may be

lead

> to the original testimony.



March 26 1996 transcript of the first joint subcommittee of ACRS and ACNW. I

probably have it downloaded, but you'd just accuse me of lying again if it

came from me.



> Again, I admire all the work you have done on your Web site.  Even if I do

> not agree with your conclusions. I do think that there is a need to

> critically look at this data.  (Maybe money could be given to the NCRP to

> look at the data separately from the LNT controversy.)



NCRP was given money to look at this by NRC. They received direction from

the NRC Chairman to address this data forwarding a letter to the Chairman

from ACNW in July 1996 based on the data presented in March 1996. The data

was ignored in the Oct 1998 draft, and ACNW would not question the NCRP on

its failure (due to the "great pressure" from Dicus, etc., which led to her

appt. to ICRP) but our participation in the March 1999 meeting did get them

to commit to ACNW to address the data (see the transcript). But the final

report was essentially unchanged. NRC said it "can't question" their failure

even though NRC paid for the report (and the NRC rad protectionists, Reg

Research, was complicit in the dishonesty of the report, and ACNW wouldn't

demand any accounting from them either). The dishonesty was blatant and

simply to be accepted.



>I believe that is how science is about.



Right! At least that's how gov't "science" is done.



>DOE's research efforts on low dose effects is probably an

> outgrowth of this controversy.



"Probably?" As you know, our 1996 and 1997 reports initiated Domenici's

effort to produce the funds in response to the international controversy,

which also produced the Wingspread Conference in 1997 and BRPS in 1999.

Unfortunately, he ignored our advise to assure that relevant biology and

medicine research would be done, and gave the money to DOE which simply

continued the decades-long AEC/DOE practice of failing to do any research on

the relevant biology. (It spends all its resources looking under the LNT

lamppost and claiming it can find any keys!)



You don't have to believe me, just go to lowdose.org and you'll find no

research projects that address the relevant biology in immunologically whole

organisms (following the studies that are documented in our reports since

1995).



Or better yet, let me know if you find any relevant research project in the

DOE program! (Some people that I trust claim that this is changing, that DOE

just wanted to make sure its program would get the full 10 years of research

funded, but I'm still looking to see a credible research project in the DOE

program. Ron Mitchel's AECL proposals were rejected.)



Of course, such results would still simply be ignored by NCRP, as present

results are ignored (and by ICRP, IAEA, BEIR etc.) plus EPA et al. "advisory

committees." But then such results might give Congress a little backbone, to

follow the July 2000 House hearing on the LNT.

. . .



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