Re: AW: RE: Gardner Sellafield cluster [was : reply to Cedervall ]

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Commonn sense is not really so.  Otherwise, people

would not do stupid things that result in automobile

accidents.



--- Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>

wrote:



> Bob,

> 

> You are totally right. We have a relatively big area

> in Austria, where

> lung cancer incidence is significantly lower than in

> other parts, which

> means that in other parts it is significantly

> higher. (BTW the first one

> is a granitic area, where background radiation is of

> course enhanced and

> radon concentrations are significantly higher than

> in other parts.... -

> I almost "see" already the comment that this is

> another proof for

> hormesis.)

> 

> I think that it does not need sophisticated

> scientific education but

> that it is rather common sense to recognize, that if

> there is an average

> value there must be both higher and lower ones.

> 

> Best regards,

> 

> Franz

>  

> 

> Franz Schoenhofer

> PhD, MR iR

> Habicherg. 31/7

> A-1160 Vienna

> AUSTRIA

> phone -43-0699-1168-1319

> 

>

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> > radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] Im Auftrag von

> bobcherry@cox.net

> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2004 20:37

> > An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> > Betreff: Re: RE: Gardner Sellafield cluster [was :

> reply to Cedervall

> ]

> > 

> > As a scientist who tries to keep up but who is far

> from an expert in

> > epidemiology, it usually occurs to me that when

> someone finds a cancer

> > cluster somewhere, a cancer "anti-cluster" must be

> somewhere else as a

> > balance to maintain the average incidence.

> > 

> > Not surprisingly, we usually don't hear about the

> anti-clusters. I

> wonder

> > if any of them ever occur near places like

> Sellafield. I suspect that

> they

> > do for certain kinds of cancer.

> > 

> > Bob C

> 

> 

>

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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