Re: Gy and Sv = J/kg

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

Ron Kathren very correctly states:

> In response to Jim Muckerheide, what about the Health Physics Society,
> Radiation Research Society, Society for Radiological Protection, and IRPA,
> to name but a few? 

to which I can only point out that Members of these groups are at least not
directly associated with this poor science as are Members of these
standard-setting bodies. OTOH, Members these groups are inadequate as
"professional societies" for the role that science and engineering societies
play in addressing the science independent of the government policy
esstablishment. (In fairness, some of this is happening there too! but not in
the timeframe that rad science was "developing" - ie, in our youth  :-)  

> >> Jim Muckerheide wrote:
> >
> >Many science members of BEIR and NCRP and ICRP and ICRU, etc, are embarrassed
> >when asked, but in rad science there is no science equivalent to the
> >professional societies of the physicists or chemists etc. The many good
> >scientists that have worked in rad science have no organization to assess the
> >science without being beholden to those who serve the government bureaucracies 
> >and policies that directs their work. 
> >
> >> Jack Couch
> >> Bloomsburg University
> >
> >Thanks, Jack.
> >
> >Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> >jmuckerheide@delphi.com