Re: AW: Article: Lung cancer screening raises OR LOWERS lungcancerrisk

[Mark Sonter <sontermj@tpg.com.au>]

Apropos collective dose, and just to give you all something to smile about:



An old colleague used to refer to Becquerels as 'bugger-alls' because they

are such small amounts; and Curies as 'curries' because that's pretty hot;

...... and person-sieverts as 'perverts' because at environmental levels,

collective dose is a perverted misapplication of radiation protection theory

and efforts.



Mark







"Otto G. Raabe" wrote:



> June 29, 2004

>

> Man-rem only means something if you have complete faith that the dose

> response relationship is perfectly linear down to and below a micro-rem.

>

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