Re: Dirty bombs, LNT, and Removing False Fears

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

John and others concerned with radiation benefit/harm,



C reactive protein does surpass cholesterol as prognosticator of heart

attack, stroke and death (recently flooding the media). It also has been

related to clots in the very public Womens Health Initiative where 

women who took estrogen-progesterone had more clots vs placebo (but I

believe non-smokers not, when data disclosed). In Crohn's Disease

(terrible colitis) improvement also follows CRP decrease, and CRP

appears to be a measure of inflammation, like a smoothing of fever

readings. What do you think of CRP use as a quicker, more convenient

measure to predict heart disease and death in a placebo study of 0.1 to

1.0 R/Hr from uranium ore under the mattress of persons with CRP>4

mgm/L?



I believe over-regulation of low dose radiation is increasing clots and

cancer in areas with < 0.1 cGy/year, like most of the USA coast,

considering the lesser rates in areas with higher background. This

belief is suggested by the numerous animal and human studies on

Muckerheide's list and set up by Luckey's book on Radiation Hormesis.

The $100B for "clean-up" taken from the economy is a much more credible

cause of deaths than Goffman's LNT extrapolations beyond the data of

cancer deaths from LDRadiation.



Best Wishes 

Howard Long



"Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS)" wrote:

> 

> Howard,

> If we are going to have clear discussions, you are going to stop assuming

> the I, and others on this list, understand all of your comments.  What do

> you mean by "C reactive protein prognostic value = cholesterol) by

> supplemental 0.5 to 5.0 rem/yr?"  What diseases are the regulations

> perpetuating?

> 

> -- John

> 

> John P. Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> e-mail:  jenday1@msn.com

> 

> The comments presented are mine and do not reflect the opinion of my

> employer or spouse.

> ------------------------------------

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: howard long [mailto:hlong@pacbell.net]

> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 12:45 AM

> To: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); hflong@pacbell.net; Franz Schoenhofer

> Cc: 'Rad Safety Institute'; RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; sjd@swcp.com;

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> Subject: Re: Dirty bombs, LNT, and Removing False Fears

> 

> John Jacobus and HPs who would protect from both excess and deficient

> radiation.

> 

> It is not "homeopathic" to prevent cancer and other disease (like myocardial

> infarction, considering recent C reactive protein prognostic value =

> cholesterol) by supplemental 0.5 to 5.0 rem/yr.

> 

> We are having these discussions because regulators like yourself have been

> expensively perpetuating deficiency disease. Excessive safety precautions

> damage public health and welfare.

> The "precautionary principle" favored by anti-nucs requires that regulators

> stop depriving underprivileged areas of radiant energy associated with

> better health.

> . . .

> Howard Long MD MPH

> 

> ----- Original Message -----

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

> To: <hflong@pacbell.net>; "Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>

> Cc: "'Rad Safety Institute'" <radsafeinst@cableone.net>; "howard long"

> <hlong@pacbell.net>; <RuthWeiner@AOL.COM>; <sjd@swcp.com>;

> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:44 AM

> Subject: RE: Dirty bombs, LNT, and Removing False Fears

> 

> > Howard,

> > As you know, ionizing radiation is already used in medicine, for diagonsis

> > and therapy.  Whether it is a homeopathic drug is another still debatable.

> > Otherwise, why would we be having these discussions?

> >

> > -- John

> > John P. Jacobus, MS

> > Certified Health Physicist

> > e-mail:  jenday1@msn.com

> >

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net

> > [mailto:hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

> > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 4:25 PM

> > To: Franz Schoenhofer

> > Cc: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); 'Rad Safety Institute'; howard long;

> > RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; sjd@swcp.com; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> > Subject: Dirty bombs, LNT, and Removing False Fears

> >

> >

> > Franz and HPs liberated from LNT,

> > Authoritarianism, traditional for Europe but not the USA, can manage

> > with LNT - but not with individual choice for ionizing radiation

> > benefit/harm. The Nobel Prize for 2002 in Economics was awarded for

> > showing individual choices superior to expert choices - anathema to

> > bureaucracy. Might a regulator have trouble understanding what may limit

> > his authority?

> >

> > Radiation benefit from hormesis has been well demonstrated, as described

> > on this chat box. My purpose is to advance its medical use, much as UV B

> > was used for the psoriasis patient I just saw.

> > . . .

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