RE: Hormetic Effects of Radiation should not be limited to cancer

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

This is what I have been saying for years.  Biology 

is not like physics in that you cannot expect

organisms to respond the same ways cells do.  The body

is not like a bridge that can be modeled by simple

physical laws.



--- "Stabin, Michael"

<michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:



> >The persistence of the LNT is not due to ignorance

> about how the body

> functions, but to the large regulatory investment in

> that theory.

> Moreover, people (even scientists!) are often

> unwilling to see the

> evidence that destroys their pet theories.

>  

> I agree, even while I don't believe in ICRP

> "conspiracy theories". The

> problem is that we have some evidence in certain

> studies, mostly at the

> cellular level, that indicate some isolated effects

> that are clearly

> demonstrable, but difficult to relate to the

> organism level. The same

> holds for the bystander effect, whose evidentiary

> basis is also strong,

> but which (on its face) contradicts evidence from

> valid experiments

> seeming to show a hormetic response. Because we see

> "changes in cells"

> from either does not indicate clearly how the

> organism, with its

> complexities of damage, repair, and cellular

> reproduction cycles, will

> ultimately respond. Then we have epidemiological

> studies, often with

> poor bases, from which people derive conclusions

> that suit them. I

> believe that if folks could get off their political

> agendas for a while

> and look at the biological evidence in toto, we

> could find some answers

> that would explain all of these effects and point us

> towards the

> correct, rational, dare I say scientific, policy for

> the future.

>  

> 

> Mike

> 

> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological

> Sciences

> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

> Vanderbilt University

> 1161 21st Avenue South

> Nashville, TN 37232-2675

> Phone (615) 343-0068

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> 

>   

> 

> 





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"A devotee of Truth may not do anything in deference to convention.  He must always hold himself open to correction, and whenever he discovers himself to be wrong he must confess it at all costs and atone for it."

Monhandas K. Gandhi, in "Autobiography"



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





		

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