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This is a great big citation needed. Come on, you can't "if I remember correctly" a statement like "some radiation is good for you."
by daveguy 10y ago
This is a great big citation needed. Come on, you can't "if I remember correctly" a statement like "some radiation is good for you."
- alejohausner 10y agoOK, I'll supply a citation, which argues the opposite. See the Wikipedia page on "radiation hormesis". Scroll down to "cobalt 60 exposure". TL,DR: Many apartments in Taiwan were radioactive, because the steel in the structure had been mixed in with 60Co. Residents got big doses of gamma rays. And yet they didn't get much cancer! It turns out that no, gamma rays are not good for you; rather, most residents were young, biasing the sample (few young people get cancer). The study didn't account for this bias.