Category: Radiation

Study: Cancer risk from chemicals, radiation not additive to background risk

The great Ed Calabrese is sweeping another default assumption of regulatory risk assessment into the ash bin of history.

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Get rid of the LNT model for low-dose radiation protection, says Public Health Service radiation safety expert

More than one thousand people died from low-dose radiation panic at Fukushima — thanks to the LNT hypothesis adopted via scientific misconduct.

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Calabrese: Was Muller’s 1946 Nobel Prize research for radiation-induced gene mutations peer reviewed?

A new paper from the great Ed Calabrese. Hermann Muller’s scientific misconduct continues to plague us today via regulatory actions and rules based on the linear no-threshold model of carcinogenesis.

American communist Hermann Joseph Muller won a Nobel Prize in 1946, committing scientific misconduct during his Nobel lecture by lying about the evidence concerning the LNT.

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From Muller to Mechanism: How the LNT Model Became the Default Model for Cancer Risk Assessment

New from the great Ed Calabrese…. “The present paper reveals Muller did not discover what he claimed…”

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Calabrese: Obituary Notice — LNT dead at 89 years, a life in the spotlight

The LNT model was born in fraud, caused great harm, during its lifetime and will die in ignominy. We will bury it via the opportunity provided by the Trump EPA science transparency initiative.

American communist Hermann Joseph Muller won a Nobel Prize in 1946, committing scientific misconduct during his Nobel lecture by lying about the evidence concerning the LNT.

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LNTgate: How scientific misconduct by the U.S. national Academy of Sciences led to governments adopting the LNT for cancer risk assessment

From the great Ed Calabrese. Continue reading LNTgate: How scientific misconduct by the U.S. national Academy of Sciences led to governments adopting the LNT for cancer risk assessment