Re: Limited radiation exposure may actually benefit health

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Apprarently you did not read my post.  More

knowledgeable than you or me or John Cameron have

reviewed the NSWS and did not find any beneficial

effects.  I have read those reports, and maybe you

should also.



Of course, they will not agree with your conclusions.



--- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> John,

> Scientists more familiar with NShipyardWS than

> myself can better comment on

> your astute observation that political more than

> scientific observations are

> affecting radiation safety interpretations of its

> data.

> 

> I trust that Cameron and others will supply

> references and brief guidance

> for HPs here.

> 

> Howard Long

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

> From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

> To: "sHoward Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>; "Susan

> Gawarecki" <loc@icx.net>;

> "RadSafe" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Cc: "Jim Muckerheide" <jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu>

> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 6:06 AM

> Subject: Re: Limited radiation exposure may actually

> benefit health

> 

> 

> > No.  I cannot.  And neither did those

> professionals

> > who analyzed and reanalyzed the data.  It is the

> > amateur epidemiologist who find all of the

> beneficial

> > effects.  Why do suppose that is?  A political

> agenda?

> >

> > --- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> > > John,

> > > If you trust NSWS to show LDR did no harm, then

> you

> > > should also trust the

> > > 0.76 all-cause mortality of workers with > 0.5

> rem

> > > extra vs similar workers

> > > not exposed, to demonstrate BENEFIT (p= 0.0009).

> > >

> > > Howard Long

. . .



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"Those who have not known the joy of standing up for a great cause of justice have not known what makes living worthwhile."

Paul Painleve, regarding the Dreyfus Affair, 1895



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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