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kristopher

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20. "how all the mechanisms interact in a specific dose rate range"

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 04:49 AM

Dec 2013

That makes sense and leads to the question I saw when reading the story. The efficiency of the cell repair mechanism IIRC was established reasonably well and the results produced an anomaly that was looking for an explanation. I'd be curious about whether this would explain the discrepancy between that observed rate of repair and the presence of statistical support for observed rates of cancer at low doses?
I wouldn't expect the answer to be part of the research reported on, but does it lay the groundwork for a more discerning look at specific low dose triggers? Would you expect they will be able to suss out the data for those individual pathways that are, as you say, interacting to produce the LNT guidelines?

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Radioactivity muddles the alphabet of DNA [View all] kristopher Dec 2013 OP

Yes; this has been hypothesized for some time... PamW Dec 2013 #1

That's an interesting take on the new data... kristopher Dec 2013 #2

Evidently you don't understand LINEARITY!! PamW Dec 2013 #3

Pam, ffs darkangel218 Dec 2013 #5

I CALL them as I SEE them!!! PamW Dec 2013 #6

So Im an idiot because i oppose nuclear power?? darkangel218 Dec 2013 #7

NOT at ALL!!! PamW Dec 2013 #9

I'm sorry, but you're contradicting yourself. darkangel218 Dec 2013 #11

That is the claim of the nuclear industry. kristopher Dec 2013 #8

Certainly the argument about what IS / IS NOT LINEAR... PamW Dec 2013 #10

LNT theory is accepted by by everyone except those promoting the nuclear industry. kristopher Dec 2013 #12

NOOO...!!! PamW Dec 2013 #13

Yeeees! kristopher Dec 2013 #14

Credentials?????? PamW Dec 2013 #15

ROFLMAO kristopher Dec 2013 #16

Kinda sucks the oxygen right out of the room huh madokie Dec 2013 #17

That's pretty much the mission of a disruptor caraher Dec 2013 #18

BALONEY!!! PamW Dec 2013 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author darkangel218 Dec 2013 #4

The sad thing is that there is an actual intelligent scientific debate to be had about LNT caraher Dec 2013 #19

"how all the mechanisms interact in a specific dose rate range" kristopher Dec 2013 #20

I think there are two somewhat parallel lines of research here caraher Dec 2013 #22

EXACTLY what I was saying above... PamW Dec 2013 #23