Re: PubMed Nair99 Radiat Res - Kerala population

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Hi Otto,

I guess the Dec Rad Research hasn't been distributed? :-)

But for 100,000 people lifetime (generations) at an avg. of 7.5 times
the background of 300,000 people: it's pretty obvious with "no
difference" in effects.

Also, this was reported on last May, and since (with the anti's trying
to take a "preemptive strike" on the study!? :-) See e.g.,
http://www.acmi.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience9905/12_india.html

Nair was also at the Jan99 Tokyo Conference on Alpha Ra-Th-Rn Health
Effects (with Bob Rowland, Bob Thomas, Rundo, Stehney, Morlier-Monchaux,
Kathren, etc.  You should have been there!  :-)

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
Radiation, Science, and Health
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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"Otto G. Raabe" wrote:
> 
> At 12:37 PM 12/27/1999 -0600, Jim Muckerheide wrote:
> >Friends,
> >
> >Yet another substantial study scientifically contradicts the LNT. (Can
> >do more work for biology and precision, but no effects in such
> >population-size/dose-differences refutes the LNT premise, much less
> >"supralinearity" :-)
> ******************************************
> December 27, 1999
> Davis, CA
> 
> When there is no statistically significant increase in cancer with increase
> in dose, the problem may be weak statistical power rather than the
> invalidity of LNT. I cannot tell from this abstract whether any LNT model
> was actually tested  or whether the data are robust enough to allow such a
> test.
> 
> The point here is that the absence of a statistically significant effect
> does not invalidate LNT unless there is a statistically significant
> difference between the LNT predictions and the observations.
> 
> Otto
> 
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