On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:22 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> You did not read the study I posted did you? > No, and I'm quite certain you didn't either, > The epidemiological evidence linking exposure to Radon to increased risk > of cancer is evident. The study is very well referenced and conclusive. > For the third time I'm not questioning the fact that Radon can cause cancer, what I want to know is if half the radon will cause half the number of cancers. Everybody would say yes because everybody assumes the Linear No Threshold theory is true. But is it? Where is the evidence in support of it? The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who received 2000 millisieverts of radiation were 7.9 times as likely to get Leukemia as the general population of Japanese, If they received half that amount of radiation (1000 millisieverts) and the LNT theory was true you would expect them to be 3.95 times as likely to get that disease but instead they were only 2.1 times as likely; and if they got 200 millisieverts they were 4% LESS likely and with 100 millisieverts they were 17% LESS likely to get Leukemia. Somebody please explain to me how these NONLINEAR results are consistent with the LINEAR No Threshold theory. The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who received more than 100 millisieverts were more likely to develop solid cancers than the general population of Japanese, but those who were under 100 millisieverts were not. Somebody please explain to me how the existence of such a THRESHOLD is consistent with the Linear NO THRESHOLD theory. None of the data spurts the Linear No Threshold theory, and yet the UN and the NRC and the WHO and just about every other organization you can name operates under the assumption that the LNT theory is true and makes policy accordingly. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
