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Friday, November 16, 2012

The Myth Of The Radiation: No-Safe-Level Myth

I've just come across a website called The Hiroshima Syndrome.  That syndrome supposedly consists of 3 elements, one of which is the "no safe level of radiation myth".

But the author is engaged in mythology too by trying to sell the hocus-pocus of hormesis (see the right hand side of this webpage for other pages on hormesis or just use the search function).

It is true, relatively, that there is a myth that no safe level of radiation exists. No one who flies on airplanes thinks the additional radiation is "unsafe", or they wouldn't fly.  And those who avoid airplanes out of fear, are fearful of crashing, not radiation.

But in an absolute sense, there is no safe level of radiation...a single photon can damage DNA, and DNA cannot repair itself perfectly (thankfully).  It is not a myth.

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