A-BOMBS, BEARS AND CORRUPTED SCIENCE – Reassessing radiation safety

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...

Death of the ALARA Radiation Protection Principle as Used in the Medical Sector

by Mark Miller | May 4, 2020 | Featured Articles, LNT Hypothesis, Nuclear Medicine, Radiophobia

Oakley-PA_and_Harrison-DE_Dose-Response-2020 ....

The Contrarian Who Cures Cancers

by Mark Miller | Feb 7, 2020 | Featured Articles, Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis, Nuclear Medicine, Radiophobia

Allison-2020_The cotrarian who cures cancer James P. Allison believed that unleashing the immune system was a way to beat cancer when almost no one else did. A Nobel Prize and a growing list of cancer survivors vindicate him.  ...

Low-dose ionizing radiation and cancer risk: not so easy to tell – Suraj Dahal, Matthew J. Budoff

by Mark Miller | Jan 19, 2020 | Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis, Nuclear Medicine

Dahal-2019_LDIR and cancer risk One should also bear in mind that over-estimating the harmful effects of ionizing radiation could falsely alarm physicians to not to order such imaging tests and could impose greater risk to patients than that associated with diagnostic...

Stabin’s Comment on ‘the role of radiation protection professionals in the landscape of low dose radiation’

by Mark Miller | Dec 17, 2019 | Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis, Radiophobia

Stabin_2019_J._Radiol._Prot._39_1126 Mike’s Stabin’s critical comments on Ansari’s LNT article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6498/ab15e6  ...

Bill Sacks’ and Jeff Siegel’s Response to Ansari’s “Reply to ‘the essential role of all scientists: critical evaluation not uncritical acceptance’”

by Mark Miller | Dec 16, 2019 | Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis

Surrebuttal to Ansari response – December 2019Surrebuttal to Ansari response – December 2019 For your interest, attached is our penned surrebuttal to both Dr. Ansari’s reply to our letter to the editor of the Journal of Radiological Protection, and to the...