The linear No-Threshold (LNT) dose response model: A comprehensive assessment of its historical and scientific foundations

by Mark Miller | Jul 18, 2019 | LNT Hypothesis, Radiophobia

  http://The linear No-Threshold (LNT) dose response model: A comprehensive assessment of its historical and scientific foundations Highlights • The LNT model was based on a series of newly discovered scientific errors. • The LNT was adopted due to ideological...

Re-evaluation of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model using new paradigms and modern molecular studies

by Mark Miller | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, LNT Hypothesis, Nuclear Medicine

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009279718310858?dgcid=raven_sd_recommender_email Highlights • LDR activates cellular defense systems which prevents propagation of damaged cells. • LDR activates long-term adaptive responses that protect cells from...

Why toxicologists resisted and radiation geneticists supported EPA’S adoption of LNT for cancer risk assessment

by Mark Miller | Jul 8, 2019 | LNT Hypothesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009279719308634?via%3Dihub Abstract The linear non-threshold (LNT) dose response model for cancer risk assessment has been a controversial concept since its initial proposal during the 1930s. It was long advocated by...

Muller’s Nobel Prize data: Getting the dose wrong and its significance

by Mark Miller | Jul 8, 2019 | LNT Hypothesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935119303251?via%3Dihub This paper evaluates the significant historical paper of Muller and Mott-Smith (1930), which successfully disputed the proposal of Olson and Lewis (1928) that background ionizing radiation...

Assessing the Scientific Basis of the Linear No Threshold (LNT) Model with Threshold Models for Cancer Risk Assessment of Radiation and Chemicals

by Mark Miller | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, LNT Hypothesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/chemico-biological-interactions/vol/301/suppl/C If LNT were a biologically valid dose-response model, the appearance and evolution of life on Earth would not have been possible. This link contains a wide spectrum of papers...

Molecular Bioligy, Epidemiology and the Demise of the LNT Hypotesis

by Mark Miller | Jun 24, 2019 | LNT Hypothesis

dc-low-dose-Pollycove-Feinendegen-CR-Acad-Paris-99 Metabolic DNA damage/Radiation DNA damage = ~ 107 .  Low-Dose Radiation adds NOTHING to background cancer rates…says his paper published 20 years ago!  The message hasn’t changed. The effect of 1 mGy/year...