"Scientist’s radiation cover-up might have cost thousands of lives" Lawrence Solomon (Nobel scam)

Financial Post ^ | 2-10-2012 | Lawrence Solomon

[MacMattico]

My great-uncle was a Photographer for the Army and within a couple of days was sent in to Hiroshima to take Photographs. He died last year at age 94 of diabetes complications, and his mother died when he was 13 from cancer. He used to say cancer ran in his family and the radiation must have taken care of it! Granted he was only there a few hours and then taken by boat far off shore.

[righttackle44]

One the other hand, numerous physicians died of leukemia and other radiation-caused illnesses because they stood in front of the cathode tubes of fluoroscopes in the early days of radiological diagnosis. Many physicians received radiation burns on their hands and arms. Thomas Edison's assistant, Clarence Madison Dally, died of radiation burns, and Edison abandoned his work on fluoroscopes because he was afraid of the radiation.

These results do not sound at all like the consequences of inadequate documentation or research. Perhaps the theory is not so much junk science after all. Now I know you're not going to concede that. But give me radiation safety practices over a faulty point-of-view any day.

[rellimpank]

—bflr—

[Incorrigible]

Looks like I can wear that Radium watch after all!

[Myrddin]

I've had 3000 RADS shoved through my gut as "treatment" for cancer in 1985. Fast growing cells are more sensitive than slow growing cells. Cancer cells grow faster, so they are more sensitive. Bacteria are even faster growing and more sensitive. The side effect of the radiation on the gut is that the epithelial lining of the colon is killed more quickly too. Lots of vomiting and diarrhea from the radiation exposure. Bone marrow is killed too, so blood tests were required before each "treatment" to ensure that enough blood generating capacity remained for survival.

[fishtank]

What you are talking about are LARGE doses of radiation.

You yourself are exposed to low level radiation ALL THE TIME.

What the professional radiation health community is saying is that we should stop assuming that ANY amount of radiation is harmful, no matter what.

Not only is it bad science, but it is VERY expensive to implement, from a public health point of view.

[fishtank]

It is surprising how many Freepers here either have not read the article and/or don't understand it.

Wikipedia article - The "no threshold" radiation theory.

No one is saying that radiation can't be dangerous. But, the question is: is ANY AMOUNT of radiation ALWAYS harmful? Common sense and science says no. We are all exposed to small amounts of background radiation.

[GOPJ]

If I see a cluster of stories like this in the near future I’ll assume the meltdown in Japan is worse than they’re telling us...

[Bon mots]

The Atomic Boy Scout is not looking too healthy these days...

http://www.google.com/search?q=atomic%20boy%20scout&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&um=1&biw=1024&bih=672&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Ki48T-OBIY71sgbA6IiLBw

[Erasmus]

Your comparison between homeopathy and X-ray dosage might hold if they had studied people who spent most of their time in a room which had previously been bathed in ionizing radiation, but when they were in the room its intensity was zero.

This story makes no mention of such a study, and I sincerely doubt one like this has ever been done.

[TalonDJ]

It is surprising how many Freepers here either have not read the article and/or don't understand it.

Yup. And it is a bit sad how many will speak up and pretend to understand it despite having no apparent clue what 'threshold' means.

[Wuli]

The true culprit in all this:

official national bodies of ‘experts’ in various disciplines of science

law and government mandates and policies based on the opinions of such ‘experts’

national and international prizes for such ‘experts’

all leading to the public psychology that among such ‘experts’ there is one opinion or one set of opinions that are sbolutley correct compared to all other opinions on the subject and only the appointed ‘most expert’ opinions should be followed, should allowed government and social sanction

THAT

not the particular expert opinions is the real problem