FW: A Little Poison Can Be Good For You

["Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@cpcug.org>]

The following articles on the beneficial effects of low dose radiation may

be of interest.



Ted Rockwell



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Subject: A Little Poison Can Be Good For You





Friends,



Please see this article, "A Little Poison Can Be Good For You: The received

wisdom about toxins and radiation may be all wet."  in the June 9, 2003

Fortune magazine (web May 28):



http://www.fortune.com/fortune/brainstorm/0,15704,454888,00.html



Please distribute this widely, both within the nuclear community, and to all

your family and friends, and to all opinion leaders, media, and policy and

political interests you know.



This is another substantial contribution from Dr. Calabrese's efforts. We

need to maximize its impact. [One senior nuclear manager reported sending it

to about 500 mostly non-nuclear contacts and he was "flooded with positive

responses by people who suspect or agree that the gov't agencies make it all

up"! :-) ]





Also, send the powerful 2-page Commentary paper, "Toxicology rethinks its

central belief - Hormesis demands a reappraisal of the way risks are

assessed." by Calabrese and Baldwin in the journal "Nature" as URL or PDF,

especially to all your ANS and other professional contacts:



http://cnts.wpi.edu:9000/rsh/dd3/Calabrese03Nat-ToxHorm.pdf



Plus the substantial commentary on this statement by Helen Pilcher at:



http://cnts.wpi.edu:9000/rsh/dd3/displayNotesCommentary.jsp?recNum=2796



Let us know what response you get.



Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide

Radiation, Science, and Health

Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI

Mass. State Nuclear Engineer

ANS Biology and Medicine Division

http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/docs/