Low-dose study finds no effects

[PamW]

32. SCIENCE; not polls

RobertEarl,

Evidently you "think" ( term used loosely ) that scientific truth is decided by polls.

Where did you ever get that "idea"????

What is scientifically true or not is scientifically true or not REGARDLESS of whether a bunch of non-scientists who are not educated in the sciences, are "buying it", to use your words. ( Most non-scientists probably don't buy that time slows down when you go fast, or are in a gravitational field. However, who cares what the non-scientists "think" Einstein was right! )

Radiation from nuclear power plants is 3000 times lower than what Mother Nature exposes you to, and we can live with what Mother Nature exposes us to because we have a DNA radiation damage repair mechanism to fix radiation-caused defects.

It's a little like the immune system. We live in a world full of germs. Those germs are deadly. Ever see what happens to a person with AIDS? The body is ravaged. The AIDS virus doesn't do that. What does that are the germs that you and I are exposed to every day. They don't kill us because we have an immune system. For the AIDS sufferer, the AIDS virus destroys the immune system. That's all the AIDS virus does. The person is killed by all those every day germs. Without our immune systems, we couldn't live in the environment Mother Nature sets for us; it has too many deadly germs.

Mother Nature also is irradiating us. The way we are able to live with that radiation which is all around us is because we have a radiation damage repair mechanism.

The same repair mechanism works on the rather small amount of additional exposure we get from nuclear power.

Do you ever fly in airliners??? You get MUCH, MUCH more radiation exposure flying in that airliner than you do from nuclear power. If you don't, lots of people do. So why aren't air travelers dropping dead of radiation exposure? Do you think people are grossly harmed by the exposure in airliners? Again, the radiation damage repair mechanism takes care of that.

PamW