Faulty Mainstream "Science" — The Case of LNT versus Hormesis

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I support the conclusion expressed in the first sentence of the below excerpt. It is of the utmost importance that political opponents unite in recognising the crisis of science that they are culpable of having fostering.

Government and the constitutionally established political system must acknowledge and put to the forefront of their tasks the duty of government to protect science from political pressures and distortions.

The 2018 elections underscore the need for bipartisan efforts to address scientific frauds that promote and justify ever more stringent regulations – often to the great detriment of people, patients and society. 

In fact, world-renowned toxicology expert Dr. Edward Calabrese has now discovered and documented fraud behind the award of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The prize was given to Hermann Muller for his claimed discovery that even small or infinitesimal amounts of radiation can cause cancer. It is the ridiculous assertion that there is no threshold below which any kind of radiation is safe. 

By contrast, toxicologists have long used actual experiments to establish dose response models and determine what exposure to various kinds of radiation (or chemicals) actually pose cancer (or other) risks for humans.  

Low doses are generally benign, they have found. In many cases, low doses even help animals and humans ward off disease, safeguard bodies against certain chemicals or diseases, or actually cure cancer and other diseases. Higher doses can cause problems, and therefore must be calculated and regulated.  

For example, via a process called hormesis, low levels of radon exposure can protect against cancer; 80 milligrams of aspirin are thought to prevent strokes; and trace amounts of selenium help our bodies counteract the harmful effects of mercury in our blood.  

However, despite this evidence, government agencies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have followed Muller’s straight-line Linear No Threshold (LNT) model for decades. Besides giving rise to what many say are overly restrictive and even unnecessary regulations, the LNT model has actually harmed patients, by greatly precluding the use of radiation in curative medicine.

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Donning a mummery of "science", political activists and political consumers are blocking the progress that genuine science leads to. Increasingly, society is losing its capability to exercise rational self-control. An unexpected outcome of unprecedented levels of wealth part of which is used to subsidise projects informed by magical thinking.