Toxicologist says NAS panel 'misled the world' when adopting radiation exposure guidelines
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
A toxicologist describes how regulators came to adopt the linear no threshold (LNT) dose-response approach to ionizing radiation exposure in the 1950s, which was later generalized to chemical carcinogen risk assessment. He also offers further evidence to support his earlier assertions that two geneticists deliberately suppressed evidence to prevent the U.S. National Academy of Sciences from considering an alternative, threshold model, for which there was experimental support.