Re: background radiation and cancer

[Jeff Eichorst <myself@lanl.gov>]

It sonds like this, Alice person has it out for background radiation.  Does
she/he have a plan to publicly humiliate it, and hopefully, outlaw it?


At 01:05 PM 9/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Re: Natural Radiation causing 10% of all cancers.
>
>The statement is likely from Alice Stewart (she's made the statement publicly),
>but I'd half to check my Stewart files (now in a moving van within 3000 miles
>of here).  Sorry, can't be more specific, but thats where I'd begin.  
>
>For those who don't collect her musings, Stewart's opinions do not comport well
>with the published findings of Bernie Cohen, Matanoski (huge study of nuclear
>shipyard workers), UNSCEAR 94, Jawaworski, Kondo, Hattori, Pollycove, etc., let
>alone those of Luckey.  And no it is NOT widely understood that 10% of all
>cancer is caused by natural radiation.
>M. Fox
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