Dan Minette schreef:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Radiated Fetuses Re: W. on the Environment
> >
> >
> > I was thinking of a ducumentary a few days back where they showed the
> > results of some 'very harmless' experiments using very low radiation
> > material to see how iron
> > and iodine work during pregnancy. Also some experiments to follow
> > development of fetuses using X-rays.
>
> What's the childhood cancer rate for Aberdeen? Is it 5x, 10x that of the
> rest of Europe? The radiation level fetuses are exposed to is much higher
> there than elsewhere in Europe. What was the dose rate for those fetuses?
> My guess is that they screwed up the dosage calculations. If very low doses
> really cause that many cancers in children, then the childhood cancer rate
> variation with the variation in natural background radiation should be
> extremely easy to measure. It is unmeasurable, so that sets an upper limit.
As I said it was a Discovery documentary and as such you have to be extremely
sceptical about it. <Snipping that remark wasn't very nice by the way>.
But I do wonder wheather external dosage would do more or less harm then
ingested dosage of radiation. Do radioactive labelled elements built into your
bodysystem do more harm then the same amount of radiation from outside your
body. Why else would ingestion of massive doses of Iodine to prevent pancreatic
cancer in case of a major nuclear disaster work so well. Based on that I can
imagine that radioactivity present in a fetus due to ingestion (so radiation
next to human tissue still in a very early developmental stage) might do a lot
of damage. I was meaning to check into it but haven't gotten around to doing so.
Care to do the honors? If you can manage without getting statistical that is.
:o)
> Dollars to donutes some idiot miscalculated. I have a good idea how that
> could happen. You cannot hit a 1 kg fetus with the same dose as a 70 kg
> adult and expect the same results...
Sonja
