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And even then none died from the radiation.
by bobsmooth 4y ago
And even then none died from the radiation.
- mannykannot 4y agoOh, that's all right, then.
- mc32 4y agoAnd evidently they lived longer than the median for their industry colleagues as well as the general population. So a couple of things could contribute: the healthiest of fit people were chosen, their jobs drove them to be healthier than their peers or somehow ingesting the stuff had a positive effect on them. The last one is dubious but without evidence to the contrary should be considered.
- ajuc 4y agoTheir health was monitored more closely because of these experiments giving them much better than average health outcomes.
- tomxor 4y agoI'm still waiting for the plutonium supplements to arrive.
- earlyam 4y ago[flagged]
- rich_sasha 4y agoIt did exist when radium was first discovered. Yup, for a radiant skin!
- mc32 4y agoSome of these people died not knowing they had been subject to those experiments.
- rzzzt 4y agoThe last one is called "radiation hormesis", the opposing theory in which there is no safe level of ionizing radiation is "linear-no-threshold" (focusing only on the "no threshold" part). The middle ground is a threshold model in which low levels are hypothesized to do nothing for or against one's health. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
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