[LINK] Still FUD - Wooluf, Wooluf, it's the Wooluf.

[Tom Koltai]

Sorry stephen, this one slipped through the cracks.
However I think I have subsequentely answered it.

Except for the last comment Flight or fight.

As far as fight or flight is concerned, I would remind you of the boy
that cried wolf.

Eventually, the hunters ignored him and he got eaten by the wolf.

Therefore if humanity is scared into submission every minute of every
day about everything, then the peons will be too scared to leave their
homes, become dependent on alcohol, xanax and drugs and of course
industry will stop.
We will become a consumerist classless society, morbidly overweight
dependent on countries without sensationalist news broadcasts to make
our whitegoods and electronics and of course we will need to apply for
ever increasing credit to service our increasing need to view more
exciting news broadcasts peppered with flashy 90 dB advertisements with
the eBay/Sony slogan, Buy it NOW!!!!/Before 20 Dec 2012. 

Gee, the above sounds awfully familiar to me - et tu ? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> stephen at melbpc.org.au
> Sent: Friday, 1 April 2011 3:14 AM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Still FUD
> 
> 
> Tom writes,
> 
> > Journalists scaring the pants of everyone about the dangers from 
> > Nuclear fallout, meltdown, radioactive food chain, etc ad nauseum, 
> > {that which I call unnecessary economic damage, and FUD!!!) ..
> 
> The world agrees about coal, and also radiation, being major problems.
> 
> But it may be that news media are *underplaying* any radiation issues?
> 
> For example, there are an ever increasing number of sources reporting 
> that 100 mSv is the lowest dose at which a person is at risk 
> for cancer.
> 
> However, quote ..
> 
> "According to the National Academy of Sciences, there are NO 
> safe doses 
> of radiation. Decades of research show clearly that any dose 
> of radiation 
> increases an individual's risk for the development of cancer."
> 
> Associate Professor Tilman Ruff of University of Melbourne's Nossal 
> Institute for Global Health says there may be a threshold for some 
> effects of radiation, but, not for cancer.
> 
> "There is unfortunately a continuing tirade of statements by 
> self- interested parties and some official agencies implying 
> a threshold for 
> radiation exposure, below which there are no adverse 
> consequences," says 
> Ruff.
>  
> And Peter Burns, former acting CEO of Australia's nuclear 
> safety agency, 
> ARPANSA says, "There is no level below which we believe 
> radiation effects 
> can't occur," says Burns. "There is evidence that supports 
> the adverse 
> effects of low doses of radiation, including studies showing 
> an increased 
> risk in foetuses getting cancer later in life from a mother's 
> one-off 10 
> millisievert medical scan." (End quote)
> 
http://www.abc.net.au/science "No safe threshold for radiation: experts"

And ..

"The committee has focused on evaluating radiation effects in the low-
dose range, with emphasis on the lowest doses when relevant data are 
available. At low doses, damage is caused by the passage of single 
particles that can produce multiple, locally damaged sites leading to
DNA 
double-strand breaks (DSBs). These indicators of DSBs show linearity
down 
to doses of 5 to 10 mGy. In vitro data on the introduction of gene 
mutations by low-LET ionizing radiation are consistent with knowledge of

DNA damage response mechanisms and a *nonthreshold low-dose* response
for 
mutations involved in cancer development."

<http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11340&page=313>

As ANY radiation can cause cancer, isn't it wise to FUD any radiation?
It's not irrational to fear and doubt something if it's clearly poison. 
Tom, what's this thing you may have that FUD is NOT logical, or useful?
Without fight or flight human beings would have become extinct long ago.

Cheers,
Stephen




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