"Low Level
Radiation Health Effects: Compiling the Data"
by Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc.,
Edited by J. Muckerheide
Preface
This document compiles the extensive data that contradict the LNT
policy, and fail to support the LNT; and contribute to reconsidering radiation science
policy and radiation protection standards.
Substantial scientific evidence indicates that natural radiation may
be essential and beneficial to biological health.
Scientists that have pursued such research despite radiation science
policy constraints are systematically ignored, and credible scientific work is not
supported, and not published.
This document is to be organized in 3 major Sections.
1. HEALTH EFFECTS DATA - for specific populations and exposures.
2.RESEARCH PROGRAMS - for significant, credible, scientifically qualified research that has been
terminated or unreported
3. RADIOACTIVITY - to compare natural radioactivity and high dose sources to levels for regulatory
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PrefaceThis
document compiles scientific data on low level radiation health effects, and on the
biological effects of low level radiation.
These sources are identified as among those that are not
considered in radiation science policy, and in establishing
radiation protection standards.
This
document is a summary resource of many scientific data sources produced in the last 100
years that are relevant to setting radiation protection standards, especially the
biological data that contradict the hypothesis that low radiation doses can produce
adverse health effects.
This
document contributes to growing international efforts to reconsider radiation science
and regulatory policy initiatives that result in US$trillions in public costs.
Substantial
scientific evidence indicates that natural radioactivity and radiation may be essential
and beneficial to biological health.
Radiation
science policy largely prevents such research, and expends US$100s millions on research on
inconsequential radiation health effects, and US$trillions to reduce sources of radiation
by less than 1% of the natural variation in background radiation.
Qualified
scientists that have pursued such research despite radiation science policy constraints
are systematically ignored, and credible scientific work is not supported, and not
published, in contributing to assessing and setting radiation protection policies.
This preliminary data resource document will continue to be
supplemented to add additional identified evidence, and the technical assessment.
This
document is to be organized in 3 major Sections. These Sections are not fully
developed. Later work will incorporate additional data from existing and current research;
document research programs that have been proposed and terminated by radiation science
policy and radiation protection interests; and document comparisons of radioactivity from
natural sources and regulatory limits; and present conclusions of scientific and technical
reviews.
The first Section is DATA.
Data
sources are presented for specific populations and exposures. BEIR and sources used to
support the premise that all radiation is harmful and warrants costly intervention will be
included; as will reports on radiation protection costs and benefits, and presenting
conclusions by the most knowledgeable, independent, and concerned scientific contributors
for the public interest in terminating massively excessive public costs.
The second Section is PROGRAMS.
Reports
on Programs with significant, credible, research that are terminated or unreported; of
scientifically qualified proposals for significant radiation exposure and health effects
evidence that not considered or investigated; and on on- going, proposed, and recommended
research directed to challenge and assess existing biological evidence on biological
effects and on the evidence that radiation is essential and benefical, and to apply
radiation for human and biological health benefits, in preventive and therapeutic
applications. Programs that should be continued, resumed, or reported will be identified.
The third Section is RADIOACTIVITY.
Reports
on radioactivity sources that compare significant natural radioactivity and radiation
sources to those sources subject to costly research and regulation. |
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