Have we been too concerned about long-term exposure to low-dose radiation?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-lie-about-radiation/

Drinking a beer a night for a year is a lot less harmful than drinking 365 at once. Radiation is similar, as long-term studies of those living near Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima suggest (along with a bunch of other interesting scenarios where people have inadvertently been exposed to radiation for a long time)

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Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 75d

hm... this seems like crap. there's been a lot of research about this kind of thing, but so far nobody has been able to disprove the linear risk growth yet. Even large scale studies have found that it is accurate to reality.

Archer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d

Billionaireslop

FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d

Betteridge's law of headlines says 'No'

HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 75d

so like. the curies.