Fw: Radiation Hormesis - more reference sources

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

In addition to the hundreds of references supporting radiation hormesis in

Pollycove, Luckey and JCohen Symposium references below, I should have

mentioned the thousands categorized at jMuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu and

jcCameron@facstaff.Wisc.edu , Jerry Cuttler's, etc.



 Howard Long



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

From: "Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>

To: "Flood, John" <FloodJR@NV.DOE.GOV>; "'jjcohen'" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>;

"Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>; <RuthWeiner@AOL.COM>;

""Joan Stovall"" <joans@PCEZ.COM>; ""Karl Ellison"" <ellison1@localnet.com>;

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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:03 PM

Subject: Re: Radiation Hormesis





> John, Jerry and Radsafers,

>

> I have designed 2 studies to prove hormesis in humans, both with

> difficulties greater than Cameron's current one of mortality rates in

> elderly persons having uranium ore or placebo under their mattresses.

>

> Clinical trial of ionizing radiation vs placebo could still fail to prove

> hormesis to some. For example, an outlier population selected (Iowa for

> Field's study of radon in homes of lung cancer patients vs controls)

negates

> application to the other 99% of USA population. Failure to separate

subjects

> presumed to be alike (Womens' Health initiative refusal to release data on

> never-smokers separately) resulted in unwarranted scareing of half of

USA's

> elderly women out of taking the best osteoporsis treatment.

>

> Evidence for most Americans to benefit from taking 10x present expoure to

> ionizing radiation (and to sunshine) is already compelling. I have Jerry

> Cohen's Special Issue on Radiation Hormesis (Health Physics, May, 1987) on

> my desk next to Luckey's Radiation Hormesis and Pollycove - Feinendegan's

> Biological and Epidemiological Foundations of Radiation Hormesis (Doctors

> for Disaster Preparedness July 2001,WWW.OISM.org/DDP and J Nuc Med 42(7)

and

> (9), 2001. These have voluminous references.

>

> Howard Long



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