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I agree that the level found in the wine is inconsequential, but it's worth pointing out that studies of radiation workers have found that the linear no thresho
by rflrob 8y ago
I agree that the level found in the wine is inconsequential, but it's worth pointing out that studies of radiation workers have found that the linear no threshold model does a pretty reasonable job of explaining non-leukemia cancer risk, at least around the levels of radiation equivalent to, say, a multi-decade career as a flight attendant. Granted, the error bars are pretty big, and you have to get to levels equivalent to a trip to Mars for it to get appreciably above background.
TLDR: It's overenthusiastic to think the literature has concluded that low-level radiation is probably good for you, but good experiments are hard.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634664/
Dose examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Dose_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Dose_examples