RE: Jocelyn Kaiser "Science" reports on hormesis - needs letters!

["Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@starpower.net>]

Those citations are particularly relevant in view of Kaiser's implication

that there are no human data supporting hormesis.  Her last sentence quotes

Douple as saying "If you've got human data, you use it."



Ted Rcokwell



-----Original Message-----

From: S. Fred Singer [mailto:singer@sepp.org]

Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 5:08 PM

To: Jim Muckerheide

Cc: jerrycuttler@rogers.com; blc@pitt.edu; tedrock@starpower.net

Subject: Re: Jocelyn Kaiser "Science" reports on hormesis - needs

letters!





I will be glad to co-sign a sensible letter that reviews the observational

support for radiation hormesis:



Bernie Cohen's radon story



Taiwan  apartment house experience



Hiroshima, Chernobyl  etc lack of cancer



British radiologists, shipyard workers?



Colorado data and locations of high radioactivity



German study of exposure of air crews



Best                  Fred







At 02:41 PM 10/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Friends,

>

>I have put the 2 subject reports on the web site for your review and

>comment. See:

>http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Docs/Kaiser03SciSci-PoisonChalice.pdf

>http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Docs/Kaiser03Sci-DabOfRad.pdf

>

>You will find the science (biology) case for hormesis has largely been

>left on the cutting room floor (I assume). Please consider sending a

>response.  She has gotten volumes of 'hard science' on the biological

>foundations, and refuting the mainstream apologists.

>

>OTOH, perhaps she was constrained in how she could deal with the

>mainstream scientists, and she has succeeded in hanging some big targets

>out there to be challenged!

>

>Although I have gotten some brief negative comments, there seem to be

>fewer of our scientist friends writing letters to the journals, or to

>the scientists or reporters, on the substance of the science.  Let me

>know if you want to respond to this report if you want to communicate

>with others who will be responding.  A joint effort may get more

>substance and attention to get published. But if a number of people

>write, it will be good to inform the "Science" editors even they only

>publish a few responses.

>

>Thank you.

>Regards, Jim Muckerheide

>========================

>



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