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    Some encouraging signs

     

    There are some encouraging signs in the ongoing attempts to overthrow the LNT model:

     

    Many articles in journals are questioning the use of the LNT model

    • Informed Consent for Radiation Risk from CT Is Unjustified Based on the Current Scientific Evidence

    • Does Imaging Technology Cause Cancer? Debunking the Linear No-Threshold Model of Radiation Carcinogenesis

    • Is Use of Radiation Hormesis the Missing Link to a Better Cancer Treatment?

    • Lung Cancer Hormesis in High Impact States Where Nuclear Testing Occurred

    • Beneficial effects of low dose radiation in response to the oncogenic KRAS induced cellular transformation

     

     

    More articles in popular media are questioning the wisdom of using the LNT model and recognizing the phenomenon of radiation hormesis:

     

    • A Nuclear Paradigm Shift in the Wall Street Journal

    • When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk in New York Times

    • Paris, From Terror to Nukes in Huffington Post

    • Low-dose radiation from X-rays, CT scans does not cause cancer in Economic Times

     

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    Reasons to eliminate the LNT model

    Additional reasons to not use LNT Model

    An Overview

    What is the LNT model?

    What does the evidence say?

    Claimed evidence for the LNT model

    Weak defense of the LNT model

    Harms from the use of the LNT model

    Benefits from discarding LNT model

    Ongoing campaign against LNT model

    Some encouraging signs

    Why action is needed

     

    FYI

    Why LNT model is senseless

    Major flaws in the LNT model 'logic'

    Questionable publications

    Response to our critics

    Deficiencies of advisory bodies

    Atomic bomb survivor data

    Are children more radiosensitive?

    Reasons for persistence of LNT model

    Conflict of interest issues

    Action Plan

    Public education

    Canvass professional organizations

    Legal challenges to LNT model

    Challenge LNT model based work

    Form new advisory bodies

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    Get involved

    Why get involved

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