linearity

occupation / innovator as

physicist

nationality

British

is, in biology, not an appropriate model to fall back on insofar as correction and feedback play a significant role.

Professor Wade Allison argues that linearity is not appropriate in biology, or in any scientific context where correction or feedback is significant. He argues that data on therapeutic radiation, exposure to elevated natural radiation (such as the presence of radon gas in homes), the diseases of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors and other data are consistent with non-linearity. Consequently he suggests that radiation safety levels could be raised while still balancing the risks of personal medical and public environmental radiation exposures. Such a change would have major effects on the acceptability and costs of nuclear technology

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