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Re: Hormesis in the News.



	Thanks for the correction.  

Joan Stovall
joans@pcez.com
>From: "Muckerheide" <muckerheide@mediaone.net>
>Date: 10/11/1999  1:41:48AM
>To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Hormesis in the News.
>
>"Joan E. Stovall" wrote:
>> 
>>         The "New Australian" has an article about hormesis, that
>sounds
>> really interesting.  The article is by *Dr Aaron Oakley" of 
>Oakley
>> Environmental Research.  The article mentions the Lorentz Rat
>> Experiments of the 1940's.   The only criticism, that I have, is
>> that my knowledge of those experiments indicates the uranium ore
>> (not uranium dust) was used to provide an approximately uniform
>> radiation field in the rat experiment area, not as an inhalation
>> source.
>
>Joan, group,
>
>The Manhattan Project U-dust inhalation studies were not the Lorenz
>studies. Don Luckey refs them from Stone 1942:
>
>Stone, R. (1942) Health protection activities of the plutonium
>project, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 90, 11.
>
>Does anyone have a copy?
>
>See the ref regarding effects on reproduction at:
>http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-3/1/1316lu94.html
>
>Also refs to Lorenz and other animal studies at:
>http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-3/1/131list.html
>
>>         For the entire article, go here:
>> http://www.newaus.com.au/news136aaron2.html
>> 
>> Joan E. Stovall
>> joans@pcez.com
>
>Regards, Jim Muckerheide
>muckerheide@mediaone.net
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