Article in Dec 02 Discover

["Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>]

Friends:



The December 02 issue of "Discover," a mainstream popular science magazine

put out by a Disney subsidiary, has a cover story on "Is a Little Radiation

Good for You?" featuring Ed Calabrese, and mentioning Sagan, Pollycove, and

the Montana spas.  It's not THE cover story, but it's 8 full continuouds

pages, with its title headlined across the top of the cover.  Oddly enough,

the snailmail copy arrived today, but the discover.com page still calls

November the Current Issue.  However, I would expect you can read it there

soon.



There are some great quotes.  One that is pulled out and displayed boldly in

a sidebar: "I have so much data--this is so overwhelmingly convincing--that

I don't think anyone rational could deny that hormesis exists."  This is

quoting Ed, of whom they write: "what has earned him the respect of

government regulators, scientific collaborators, and thousands of

subscribers to his newsletter--is both his method and his background."  They

quote a former director of the EPA science advisory board, Donald Barnes:

"He's a mainstream toxicologist.  Everyone knows him.  He is not a flake.

And everyone respects the work he has done.



Then they quote Calabrese again. "Today we have 4,500 cases showing what we

believe to be hormesis.  If you see this pattern again and again and again,

you really can't ignore it."  Later he says, "It's time for the EPA to

develop a new paradigm for setting exposure limits...Before advising

homeowners and townships to spend fortunes on removing radon and arsenic,

the EPA should analyze the actual data on low-level exposures."



Read it yourselves when it appears on discover.com



Ted Rockwell



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