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Radioactive Wolves – Coming to PBS Nature on October 19, 2011

ByRod Adams

…ation above the noise floor better than 2-sigma. This hardly constitutes a smoking gun. Bob Applebaum Brian – “Cancers are occurring” is not an argument. Nor is it an implication. It is a fact. What is the contribution to the cancer rate from the Chernobyl radiation? We can’t tell. It is too low to be discerned from other causes using current epidemological methods. We usually try to be confident at the 95% level. Just because we can’t be 95% sure…

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Spirited debate about BEIR VII and Linear No Threshold (LNT) Dose Assumption

ByRod Adams

…a reference that had been tickling the back of my memory, what I see as a smoking gun on using the DDREF as an excuse to keep hold of LNT at low doses It’s from no less a body than the ICRP, the abstract for their Publication 99, Low-dose Extrapolation of Radiation-related Cancer Risk. The relevant quotation is: “Unless the existence of a threshold is assumed to be virtually certain, the effect of introducing the uncertain possibility of a thresh…

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