Reply #75: High doses aren't lethal, per se.

[DrWeird]

Look at Yuschenko (can somebody help me with that name?), he recieved one of the highest doses in recorded history, and he's walking around fine, will be for years to come, probably.

Now there are any number of toxic chemicals, or toxins for that matter, that would have had him stone cold dead in seconds at a tiny fraction of that dose.

As for low doses and my original point. Your own material, which I highly recommend you read, supports my claim that low dose effects of dioxins are not at all well understood. There have been numerous conflicting reports in peer reviewed articles and it's anything but a well understood, case closed issue. This is why I suggest everybody who's interested read up on the issue.

Dioxins are present in our own bodies. They're everywhere you look in the environment. They're in breast milk. That doesn't mean everybody panic and pretend it's the worst toxin known to man, because I assure you, it's not.

As a wise old chemist once told me, "there are no toxic chemicals, only toxic concentrations."

Now as for radiation. Dioxin has nothing to do with radiation. Yes, they can both cause cancer. So can viruses, that doesn't mean they all have something to do with each other.