Re: New Steve Wing Study

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

February 4, 1998
Davis, CA

In answer to Julian, the tobacco industry analogy is not appropriate. There
are some really excellent studies of the health of radiation workers that
health physicists can quote. It is just the seriously biased and flawed
studies (which includes all the Wing papers) to which we object.

For some good stuff try: 

Ethel Gilbert, "Radiation worker epidemiology and risk," Chapter 19 in
RADIATION PROTECTION AT NUCLEAR REACTORS, (C.J. Maletskos, Ed.), Medical
Physics Publishing Co., 1995.

IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Study Group on Cancer
Risk among Nuclear Industry Workers, "Direct estimates of cancer mortality
due to low doses of ionizing radiation: an international study," LANCET
344, 1039-1043 (1994).

Otto
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