by Mark Miller | Sep 2, 2020 | LNT Hypothesis, Radiophobia
Community Summary_NCI Cancer Risk Projection Study for the Trinity Nuclear Test (1) Background on the Trinity Test A study to estimate the radiation doses and associated range of excess cancer risk from the world’s first test of a nuclear weapon, conducted in 1945 and...
by Mark Miller | Aug 29, 2020 | Featured Articles, Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis
Waltar-Feinendegen-2020_Double threshold, Consequences for identifying LDR effects Thresholds A and B should be terms in modeling dose-response functions. Regarding whole-body responses, current data suggest for low-LET acute, non-chronic, irradiation a Threshold B of...
by Mark Miller | Jul 23, 2020 | Featured Articles, Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis, Nuclear Medicine, Radiophobia
Joint Communique of SARI, XLNT, and SRI Regarding the Health Effects of … Recommendation: Substantial scientific evidence supports these statements. If the public, professionals, advisory bodies, governments, and the media understand and act on the above information,...
by Mark Miller | Jun 26, 2020 | Hormesis, Nuclear Medicine
Trott et al-2020Jun_Radiotherapy for COVID-19 The two papers which are being published in this issue of Radiotherapy and Oncology present the extreme alternative positions in the current discussion about the potential value of using radiotherapy to treat acute...
by Mark Miller | Jun 26, 2020 | Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis, Radiophobia
Calabrese-Paunio-2020 You can have ‘toomuch of a good thing’. But can you have ‘too little of a bad thing’? Professor Calabrese has shown that a great many things that are damaging in large quantities may – in small doses, below a certain threshold – do no harm or...