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No one has conclusively shown that radiation causes or does not cause cancer at low doses, on the order of the world's variation of the natural background radia
by acidburnNSA 7y ago
No one has conclusively shown that radiation causes or does not cause cancer at low doses, on the order of the world's variation of the natural background radiation dose. There are lots of data. It is noisy.
- User23 7y agoIt may even be healthy[1]. It stands to reason that organisms that evolved in a radioactive environment would have some physiological ability to compensate and that it would follow the general adaptation pattern. Mithridatism is very real after all. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
- pfdietz 7y agoOr, it may be even more dangerous at low doses than LNT implies. The data are too noisy to tell.