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8. Look how easy this is.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:27 AM
Jan 2012
"Currently, risk estimates for low doses of IR are based on empirical linear fits of existing human data determined at high doses. This extrapolation model assumes that cells have the capacity to repair IR damage at low doses as they do at high doses. Clearly, the data presented here do not support this assumption and could suggest that a linear extrapolation model significantly underestimates the risk for IR-induced carcinogenesis."

http://www.pnas.org/content/100/9/5057.full.pdf

Unless you're a radiation health expert taking any position other than LNT (the general consensus) is clearly a result of some bias.

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