top | item 41301831 (no title) office_drone | 1 year ago This reminds me of the story of the Taiwanese radioactive homes, where 2000 homes were built with radioactive materials. There was a prediction that a lot of the inhabitants would die of cancer, and that didn't really happen.https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/12/the-curious... discuss order hn newest lxgr|1 year ago The general concept is called Hormesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HormesisIt's one reason why the "linear no-threshold" model for biological effects of radiation is probably not accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
lxgr|1 year ago The general concept is called Hormesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HormesisIt's one reason why the "linear no-threshold" model for biological effects of radiation is probably not accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
lxgr|1 year ago
It's one reason why the "linear no-threshold" model for biological effects of radiation is probably not accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model