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> http://www.madisoncountyema.com/nwss.pdf http://www.madisoncountyema.com/nwss.pdf That is classic cold war stuff. Before you even get to the foreward by Edwa
by justin66 9y ago
> http://www.madisoncountyema.com/nwss.pdf http://www.madisoncountyema.com/nwss.pdf
That is classic cold war stuff. Before you even get to the foreward by Edward Teller you get a preface stressing (among other things) that low doses of radiation are "healthful."
- eadmund 9y agoIt's just an attempt to defuse the sort of kneejerk reaction which thinks that all radiation is harmful.
- justin66 9y agoIf you say so. small doses of radioactivity are hormetic, healthful because they stimulate the immune system. This was proven in laboratories as far back as the 1920's. With the advent of the A-bomb almost all the hormetic research stopped. And only in the last decade has it resumed on a serious scale. I wonder who they experimented on and whether that stuff is written up somewhere. Ionizing radiation is okay in my book, how about yours? is not exactly a common theme in modern medicine.