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The strength of the background radiation varies from place to place.

• tedunangst 11y ago
  I wouldn't use the phrase "all chuldren" in that case, but something more like "chuldren in high radiation areas".
  • pygy_ 11y ago
    That's bad writing from the blog author who's trying to paraphrase this: [...] the authors estimated that the excess risk of childhood leukaemia was 12% per millisievert of cumulative red bone marrow dose from background gamma radiation (Kendall et al, 2012). ... where (Kendall et al, 2012) refers to http://www.nature.com/leu/journal/v27/n1/full/leu2012151a.html http://www.nature.com/leu/journal/v27/n1/full/leu2012151a.ht....
    • tedunangst 11y ago
      That makes a lot more sense.
  • tedunangst 11y ago
    That was supposed to be children. My phone went weird.