Re: Article in Dec 02 Discover

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

This is INDEED very interesting and what you all have been saying all 

along! I've blind copied a few of my friends who might be interested in this.



Cheers,



Richard



At 09:59 PM 11/07/2002 -0500, Ted Rockwell wrote:

>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 continuous 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



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