FW: A Little Poison Can Be Good For You -revision

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

A suggested revision.



TR



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Subject: Re: A Little Poison Can Be Good For You





Friends,



Instead of:

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



use:

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





Does the Pilcher commentary work?



Thanks.

Regards, Jim





on 6/22/03 1:31 AM, Muckerheide at muckerheide@attbi.com wrote:



> 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/