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1.0
The Beneficial Biological and Health Effects of Exposures to Low-Doses
2.0 Human Exposures:
Comprehensive effects; Nutrition and Health
2.1
Natural Background Radiation
2.2 Medical Patients: Non-linear
Dose-response
2.3 Radiation Workers
2.4 Radium
Burdens: No low-moderate dose-effects in ‘dial painters’ and medical cases
2.5 Weapons Tests and
Facility Releases Exposures
2.6 Japanese Atomic Bomb
Survivors
3.0 Biology: The general
non-linear biological dose-response - an “evolutionary expectation”
3.1 Human Biological Responses
(in vivo and ex vivo)
3.2 Animal/Organism Biology
Studies
3.3 Cellular/Molecular Biology
Studies of Mechanisms
3.4 Plants
3.5 Biological and
Mathematical Models
4.0 Conclusions by
knowledgeable scientists rejecting the LNT: from the scientific literature
4.1
Science Conclusions
4.1.1
Biophysical basis for LNT is not valid
4.2
Radiation Protection Policy Conclusions
5.0 Low Dose Radiation
Research and Programs Misrepresent or Suppress the Data
5.1
Epidemiology studies that misrepresent or suppress the data
5.2
Biological research results that misrepresent the data
5.3
Official “Reviews” and “Assessments” misrepresent and/or
suppress the data |
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1.0 The
Beneficial Biological and Health Effects of Exposures to Low-Doses (7)
1.1 Radiation
Health Effects: Risk vs. Perception, Protection, and Cost (18)
1.2
Biology: Non-linear by Nature: Radiation stimulates bio-positive responses,
Essential for biological functions?(23)
1.2.1 Non-linear
dose-response (“hormesis”): a general biological condition (81)
1.2.2
General immunological response to
non-radiation stimulants (4)
1.2.3
Secondary biogenic radiation: Ionizing
radiation as essential to life (15)
1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced
Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions (9)
1.4 Carcinogenesis: a non-linear biological
process - subject to control (by LDR) (12)
2.0 Human Exposures: Comprehensive effects;
Nutrition and Health (4)
2.1 Natural Background Radiation (3)
2.1.1
External/internal radiation doses vs.
population health effects (5)
2.1.1.1
U.S. (20)
2.1.1.2
Yangjiang Province, China (11)
2.1.1.3
Kerala, India (5)
2.1.1.4
Ramsar, Iran (0)
2.1.1.5
Japan (1)
2.1.2
Radon concentrations/doses vs. population
health effects (3)
2.1.2.1
Residential radon studies (1)
2.1.2.1.1
Ecological studies –
lower lung cancer in high radon areas (7)
2.1.2.1.1.1
U.S (14).
2.1.2.1.1.2
Saxony (1)
2.1.2.1.1.3
Other Europe (2)
2.1.2.1.1.4
Japan (2)
2.1.2.1.1.5
Britain (2)
2.1.2.1.1.6
China (1)
2.1.2.1.2
Case-control studies
– confounded, weak, results (3)
2.1.2.1.2.1
U.S. (0)
2.1.2.1.2.2
Saxony/Germany (2)
2.1.2.1.2.3
Other Europe (0)
2.1.2.1.2.4
Japan
(0)
2.1.2.1.2.5
China (0)
2.1.2.2
Miner studies (3)
2.2 Medical Patients: Non-linear Dose-response
(0)
2.2.1
Late Effects from Diagnostic and Therapeutic
Applications (4)
2.2.1.1
Leukemia, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkins lymphoma (3)
2.2.1.2
Breast cancer (3)
2.2.1.3
Thyroid cancer (7)
2.2.1.4
Lung cancer (2)
2.2.1.5
Nasopharyngeal radium (1)
2.2.1.6
Preconception and prenatal exposure (2)
2.2.1.7
Cancer following childhood cancer exposure
(1)
2.2.2
Low-Dose Radiation (LDR) Stimulation Therapy
(3)
2.2.2.1
Cancer LDR treatment (11)
2.2.2.2
Infection and inflammation LDR treatment
(8)
2.2.2.3
Other LDR treatments (1)
2.2.2.4
Radon treatments (10)
2.3 Radiation Workers (1)
2.3.1
Medical Practitioners: Radiologists, X-ray Technicians, Physicists, etc.
(6)
2.3.2
Nuclear Facility Worker Studies (1)
2.3.2.1
Worker vs. Worker Studies (3)
2.3.2.1.1
U.S. (3)
2.3.2.1.2
USSR (1)
2.3.2.1.2.1
Mayak Worker Studies (2)
2.3.2.1.3
UK (2)
2.3.2.2
Worker vs. Population Studies (1)
2.3.2.2.1
U.S. (3)
2.3.2.2.1.1
Plutonium worker studies (3)
2.3.3
Misuse of the “Healthy Worker
Effect” (2)
2.4 Radium Burdens: No low-moderate dose-effects
in ‘dial painters’ and medical cases (0)
2.4.1
Bone and nasal cancers (8)
2.4.2
Other cancers and All-Cancer (4)
2.4.3
Mortality and Longevity (2)
2.5 Weapons Tests and Facility Releases Exposures
(0)
2.5.1
Military Observers and Exercise Participants
(3)
2.5.2
Weapons facility “Downwinders”
(1)
2.5.2.1
U.S. (1)
2.5.2.2
USSR (6)
2.5.3
Nuclear Power Plant and Fuel Facility
Operations (0)
2.5.3.1
U.S.
2.5.3.2
Russia (1)
2.5.3.3
Europe (4)
2.5.4
Accidents
2.5.4.1
Fallout: Marshall Islanders and ‘Lucky
Dragon’ fishermen
2.5.4.2
Chernobyl (2)
2.5.4.2.1
Cleanup Workers (6)
2.5.4.2.2
Public Exposures (6)
2.5.4.2.2.1
Public Exposure doses (1)
2.5.4.3
Kyshtym radioactive waste tank explosion
(4)
2.5.4.4
Taiwan Co-60 contamination (1)
2.5.4.4.1
Taiwan Co-60
contamination doses (1)
2.6 Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors (3)
2.6.1
Cancer/Leukemia (11)
2.6.2
Non-cancer (2)
2.6.3
Longevity (4)
2.6.4
Biological assessment (1)
2.6.5
Genetic effects (1
3.0 Biology: The general non-linear biological
dose-response - an “evolutionary expectation” (12)
3.1 Human Biological Responses (in vivo and ex
vivo) (7)
3.1.1
Occupational exposures (5)
3.1.1.1
"Healthy Worker Effect" data
contradict presumed HWE for cancers (3)
3.1.2
Medical exposures (4)
3.1.3
Accident exposures (2)
3.1.4
High background area exposures (2)
3.2 Animal/Organism Biology Studies (10)
3.2.1
“Immunologically Whole” Animals (in
vivo): enhanced longevity, fertility, disease control (10)
3.2.1.1
Mammals (3)
3.2.1.1.1
Mice (30)
3.2.1.1.2
Rats, rabbits, Guinea
pigs, chipmunks (23)
3.2.1.1.3
Dogs, other large mammals
(5)
3.2.1.2
Lower order animals (1)
3.2.1.2.1
Fish (2)
3.2.1.2.2
Chicks, hens, etc.
(1)
3.2.1.2.3
Insects (2)
3.2.1.2.4
Other (snails, C.
elegans) (10)
3.2.1.3
Microorganisms (17)
3.2.1.4
Detrimental effects of suppressing background
radiation (12)
3.2.1.5
Chernobyl ecological studies (1)
3.2.2
Bio-positive biological responses (29)
3.2.2.1
Immune responses and functions (26)
3.2.2.1.1
Disease/condition
specific responses (7)
3.2.2.1.1.1
LDR Cancer therapies (18)
3.2.2.1.1.2
LDR Inflammation and infection therapies
(7)
3.2.2.1.1.3
LDR Wound healing therapies (1)
3.2.2.1.1.4
Other LDR therapies (spinal cord injury,
diabetes) (6)
3.2.2.1.1.5
Murine AIDS (6)
3.2.2.1.2
Cell and functions
responses (5)
3.2.2.1.3
Non-radiation
immuno-stimulation (2)
3.2.2.2
DNA and cell damage and repair: Aging
(14)
3.2.2.3
Enzyme, gene and protein expression responses
(58)
3.2.2.4
Hormone responses (3)
3.2.2.5
Apoptosis (7)
3.2.2.6
Adaptive response (10)
3.2.2.6.1
Non-radiation adaptive
protection against high-dose radiation (11)
3.2.2.7
Teratogenesis/malformations (4)
3.3 Cellular/Molecular Biology Studies of
Mechanisms (24)
3.3.1
Cell growth, reproduction, and repair
(12)
3.3.2
Immune system/functions stimulation (14)
3.3.2.1
LDR enhancement of protection to chemical
toxins (2)
3.3.2.2
Low dose chemical enhancement of protection
to high-dose radiation (1)
3.3.3
Protective gene, protein, and enzyme
expression (20)
3.3.3.1
Heat shock proteins and the general
beneficial stress response (11)
3.3.3.2
LDR enhancement of protection to chemical
toxins (0)
3.3.3.3
Low dose chemical enhancement of protection
to high-dose radiation (3)
3.3.3.4
Low intensity laser enhancement of protection
to radiation effects (0)
3.3.3.5
Cell responses: survival, micronuclei, and
neoplastic transformations (10)
3.3.3.6
DNA damage and repair (7)
3.3.4
Adaptive response: Mechanisms and effects
(23)
3.3.4.1
Antioxidants (1)
3.3.4.2
Apoptosis (1)
3.3.5
Intercellular communication, signal
transduction (10)
3.3.5.1
Bystander effect (12)
3.3.6
Genetic effects/mutations (5)
3.3.7
UV responses and mechanisms (2)
3.3.8
Microdosimetry - Imparted energy (0)
3.4 Plants
3.4.1
Radiation-enhanced growth and reproduction
(10)
3.4.1.1
Seeds (11)
3.4.1.2
Seedlings (2)
3.4.1.3
Algae (3)
3.4.2
Biology (10)
3.4.3
Mitogenic and secondary biogenic radiation
(4)
3.4.3.1
'Ultrasoft x-rays (1)'
3.5 Biological and Mathematical Models (4)
3.5.1
One-hit and multi-stage models (7)
3.5.2
Random Coincidence Model (3)
3.5.3
Linear-quadratic with repair (1)
3.5.4
Mathematical models and model-free data
analysis (8)
4.0 Conclusions by knowledgeable scientists
rejecting the LNT: from the scientific literature (18)
4.1 Science Conclusions (23)
4.1.1
Biophysical basis for LNT is not valid
(2)
4.2 Radiation Protection Policy Conclusions
(12)
5.0 Low Dose Radiation Research and Programs
Misrepresent or Suppress the Data (10)
5.1 Epidemiology studies that misrepresent or
suppress the data (1)
5.1.1
U.S. Background Radiation Population Study -
Argonne National Laboratory (0)
5.1.2
Radium-burden Population Studies - Argonne
National Laboratory
5.1.3
Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study - DOE/Johns
Hopkins
5.1.4
Canadian Tuberculosis Fluoroscopy Breast
Cancer Studies (3)
5.1.5
Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivor Studies -
ABCC/RERF (1)
5.1.6
IARC '3-country' study (4)
5.1.7
Hanford - Mancuso, Stewart and Kneale (1)
5.1.8
Oak Ridge - Wing et al. (0)
5.2 Biological research results that misrepresent
the data
5.3 Official “Reviews” and
“Assessments” Misrepresent and/or Suppress the Data (1)
5.3.1
BEIR Reports (0)
5.3.1.1
BEIR IV (0)
5.3.1.2
BEIR V (8)
5.3.1.3
BEIR VI (0)
5.3.1.4
BEIR III (2)
5.3.2
ICRP / NCRP Reports (1)
5.3.2.1
NCRP 136 (SC 1-6) (0)
5.3.3
UNSCEAR Reports (0)
5.3.3.1
UNSCEAR 1994 (0)
5.3.3.2
UNSCEAR 2000 (0)
5.3.4
Government agency policies and rules (0)
5.3.4.1
U.S. EPA (1)
5.3.4.2
U.S. NRC
5.3.4.3
U.S. DOE |
