[ RadSafe ] Healthy Worker Effect - Test Time? / Taiwan study

[John Jacobus]

The article can be found at
http://www.jpands.org/vol9no1/chen.pdf
The journal itself is hard to locate in many
libraries, but can be found at http://www.jpands.org/.

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Yes Bjorn, "Is Chronic Radiation an Effective
> Prophylaxis Against Cancer? by Chen, Luan et al (J
> Am Phys & Surg 9:1 Spring 2004) has as much of the
> comparison as they could get out of bureaucracy that
> did not want to believe it. 
>  
> Luan at nbcsoc at hotmail.com would flood you with data
> on request.
>  
> Howard Long
> 
> 
> Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes a strong correlation is not causal. I
> suggest that we take a 
> cautious approach (Taiwan study) regarding
> conclusions. Has any age profiles 
> been analyzed in relation to the article?
> 
> My personal reflection only,
> 
> Bjorn Cedervall bcradsafers at hotmail.com
>
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> >The Taiwan "Study" (J Am Phys & Surg 9:1, pp6-11)
> is at least as impressive 
> >as was John Snow's observation of more disease on
> one side of a London 
> >street than the other having a different water
> supply.This at least calls 
> >for a test, "taking off the pump handle", exposing
> another population to 
> >0.4 Sv over 10 years, to reproduce very low cancer
> and fetal abnormality 
> >rates..
> 
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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