The Ripple Effect of Fraudulent Science

10 Key Points

U.S. chemical and radiation risk policy has relied on flawed science since the 1950s.
Oak Ridge scientist William Russell suppressed control data in mouse studies.
This fraud led to adoption of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model in 1956.
LNT assumes any exposure raises cancer risk, unlike threshold models.
Whistleblower Paul Selby exposed the omission in the 1990s.
Russell admitted data suppression, but policy was never corrected.
Institutions like DOE, NAS, and EPA still endorse the flawed model.
In 2025, Calabrese & Selby highlighted the fraud in Science.
Consequences: overly strict EPA rules (e.g., ethylene oxide, CT scans).
Call for new panels, retraction of LNT, and science-based regulations.