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Cancer risk assessment foundation unraveling: new historical evidence reveals that the US National Academy of Sciences (US NAS), Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation (BEAR) Committee Genetics Panel falsified the research record to promote acceptance of the LNT.
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Archives of toxicology [Arch Toxicol] 2015 Apr; Vol. 89 (4), pp. 649-50. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jan 20. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The NAS Genetics Panel (1956) recommended a switch from a threshold to a linear dose response for radiation risk assessment. To support this recommendation, geneticists on the panel provided individual estimates of the number of children in subsequent generations (one to ten) that would be adversely affected due to transgenerational reproductive cell mutations. It was hoped that there would be close agreement among the individual risk estimates. However, extremely large ranges of variability and uncertainty characterized the wildly divergent expert estimates. The panel members believed that sharing these estimates with the scientific community and general public would strongly undercut their linearity recommendation, as it would have only highlighted their own substantial uncertainties. Essentially, their technical report in the journal Science omitted and misrepresented key adverse reproductive findings in an effort to ensure support for their linearity recommendation. These omissions and misrepresentations not only belie the notion of an impartial and independent appraisal by the NAS Panel, but also amount to falsification and fabrication of the research record at the highest possible level, leading ultimately to the adoption of LNT by governments worldwide. Based on previously unexamined correspondence among panel members and Genetics Panel meeting transcripts, this paper provides the first documentation of these historical developments.
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- Biomedical Research legislation & jurisprudence
Biomedical Research methods
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced epidemiology
Risk Assessment legislation & jurisprudence
Risk Assessment methods
United States
Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
Linear Models
National Academy of Sciences, U.S.
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced genetics
Radiation, Ionizing
Scientific Misconduct
Threshold Limit Values
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1432-0738
- Volume :
- 89
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Archives of toxicology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25600588
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-015-1455-3