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Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose
scibri writes with bits and pieces from the article: "From the early 1950s to the end of the cold war, nearly 250,000 animals were systematically irradiated in the Russian town of Ozersk. Fearful of a nuclear attack by the United States, the Soviet Union wanted to understand how radiation damages tissues and causes diseases such as cancer. Now, these archives have become important to a new generation of radiobiologists, who want to explore the effects of the extremely low doses of radiation — below 100 millisieverts — that people receive during medical procedures such as computed-tomography diagnostic scans, and by living close to the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan."
There's not been actual scientific evidence for radiation hormesis in humans, despite it being your pet theory.
These were animal studies and it's not my pet theory. I was directly involved in many of those studies as a staff scientist and I don't give a rat's ass what UNSCEAR says, I saw it over and over again.
The background cancer rate in humans is 1 in 3, so there would have to be a huge population study to validate the findings in humans and it's just not going to happen unless large populations of humans are exposed to varying yet highly precise levels of ionizing radiation.
And, just for the record, UNSCEAR couldn't find a black cat on a white field at high noon with a microscope.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
The TSA is actually a complex study that uses a huge sample:
TSA agents are the chronically exposed
Frequent travellers are the regularly exposed
Occasional travellers are the occasionally exposed
Backscatter scanners are the real deal
mm-Wave scanners are the placebo