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The great gazoo | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i mean if you are side-stepping that then what are we talking about
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waxwing | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sidestepping, i just mean, take LNT as true and stick with those guidelines and it's reasonable. Unless you think even LNT is noymt cautious enough?
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The great gazoo | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i do not believe that a linear no-threshold model is valid.   I agree with that article that we should denounce that model. Hopefully the public can one day understand that dental and most medical imaging is benign and harmless
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waxwing | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 So you believe there's a threshold. Back when I was studying this, I remember also feeling strongly that this should be true, logically.

Reminds me of the old (possibly apocryphal) story of the guy who dropped his banana from lunch on the floor of a nuclear power plant and it triggered alerts on people's dosimeter readings 😄

Natural sources are easily high enough to matter, a lot, with LNT. So yeah i agree it's probably just wrong, and 'ALARA' is ... not even wrong 😄
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The great gazoo | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 ya I think we're on the same page.  what do you mean when you say 'ALARA is ... not even wrong'?
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waxwing | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Oh sorry it's a joke reference to a critique of string theory, criticizing it as not being real science. Stimuff like ALARA/P is not really anything to do with science imo.