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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: 11/92 interview w/Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, author of "Secret Fallout"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.192841.10608@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: someone hasn't been taking their Alzeimer's medicine
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan20.191653.18483@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan21.015635.18905@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan23.194938@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:28:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.194938@aifh.ed.ac.uk> jamesh@aifh.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton) writes:
- >Just a question. Could it be that because we have evolved with natural
- >background
- >radiation, we can tolerate the levels that we receive from natural sources,
- >but
- >that any additions to this will be more lethal to us? The point being that
- >these
- >emissions would seem to come on top of any background stuff, and could
- >therefore
- >push us over a dosage which evolutionarily speaking, we have been able to deal
- >with.
-
- Then every smoker should be dead within a month.
-
- Since we're going to hypothesize about doses that have effects too small to
- be measured, we _could_ look at it this way: Background radiation (which
- Sternglass doesn't admit to even existing) _could_ be like a "vaccine" for
- any future radiation doses, allowing the body to "fight off" damage from
- radiation. Then humans could tolerate low doses and still survive perfectly.
-
- Sternglass can't back up ANY of his bizarre claims. If his theory is correct,
- then we are all dead and we don't know it yet.
-
- Tino
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