🚀 go-pugleaf

Mike Baker wrote:
> 
> In article <5ij20f$c9n@dazzle.etsu-tn.edu> JOHN LOCKARD <ZJKL10@east-tenn-st.edu> writes:
> >
> > > Do you believe that people should be completely isolated from
> > > anything radoactive?
> >
> > Some things are just not matters for belief.  If radiation exposure
> > causes chromosomal damage, cancer, and death then reducing ones exposure
> > seems a logical course of action.  I haven't seen any scientific studies
> > showing radiation to be healthy.
> >
> 
>         Then you should read a little more widely. Try starting with
>         the books on radiation hormesis by Luckey. Published by CRC
>         Press.  Also, search the journal Health Physics on the same
>         subject.  I believe they did an entire issue on hormesis a
>         number of years ago.
> 
>         I am personally skeptical of the hormesis theories but there
>         are dozens of scientific studies that show evidence of this
>         and they shouldn't be ignored.
> 


When are we finally going to put this hormesis crap to rest?  I hope soon.
It reminds me too much of the homeopathy, astral projections and metaphysical
meditation taught by Rudolf Steiner at his Gottesahnen near Basil, Switzerland
in the 1930s.  The only important person who ever took his theories seriously was
Adolf Hitler, and I don't have a great deal of faith in his judgement.  Perhaps
it is only fascist cultures which embrace these "off the wall" theories.


Dennis Nelson