Re: Recent LNT correspondence by Cohen and Scherer

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, John R Johnson wrote:

>      All readers
>      
>      I have been watching the discussion on LNT for many years, and the two 
>      recent postings are a useful addition to it.
>      
>      An added complication is that all these theory assume that all human 
>      cancers have an equal probability of being producer by radiation. This 
>      has been show to be false. See NCRP Report No. 121 (Principles and 
>      Application of Collective Dose in Radiation Protection) and ACRP-18 
>      (Biological Effects of Low Doses of Radiation at Low Dose Rates).

	--I am not aware that this assumption has ever been made. It is
obviously not a valid assumption.