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Article #2480Re: PBS Frontline, April 22
From: David Underwood
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:00
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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. > > Mike > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael C. Baker, P.E. baker@groves.neep.wisc.edu > Engineering Research Bldg.,1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe you should have a little talk with the people in St. George Utah about that. Also you might check the mortality records on all the troops who participated in A and H bomb tests over the years, especially those who were forced to be in the Nevada tests of the early fifties. Also look at the causes of death for all the scientists who worked at Los Alamos.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,5d09b1c3e4833d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: 106b5d,5d09b1c3e4833d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid106b5d,public X-Google-Thread: fe1ad,5d09b1c3e4833d45 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe1ad,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,5d09b1c3e4833d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,5d09b1c3e4833d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public From: David Underwood <davidlkayp@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: PBS Frontline, April 22 Date: 1997/04/12 Message-ID: <334FBCBF.73DB@earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 234462211 References: <5ieihj$b7q$1@news8.gte.net> <01bc44ff$93b51a40$01a045cf@deanmachine> <5ij20f$c9n@dazzle.etsu-tn.edu> <5imdmn$428m@news.doit.wisc.edu> Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.environment,ca.environment,rec.org.mensa,alt.org.sierra-club